The Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center is located halfway between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo on a 200-acre site that was formerly the T. Ben Johnston Boy Scout Camp. It is a unique YMCA facility because it is the first entirely new YMCA camp to be built in the United States in 50 years.

OCBA was selected by the Ottawa County Parks Department to complete the connector trail and waterfront fishing and kayak access facilities at Grand Ravines, a recently expanded park which first opened in 2000.

OCBA was retained by the City of Saginaw Parks Department in 1997 to provide master planning through construction administration services for a custom playground in Central Park.

Blandford Nature Center and the Land Conservancy of West Michigan are working together to restore the former Highlands Golf Club into a public greenspace within the City of Grand Rapids. OCBA was retained to develop a master plan that guides habitat restoration and public use of the 121-acre property.

Liberty Park was originally an underutilized industrial site complete with leaking underground storage tanks, contaminated soils, and eroding stream banks.

For many years the approximately forty acre Kindleberger Park had been host to the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Series, but a temporary stage had traditionally been set up for the annual performance.

50 years after creating the original master plan to develop a stormwater management pond in Goldsworth Valley, OCBA was again selected by WMU to work in the Valley.

Oshtemo Township selected OCBA to develop master plans for both Township parks – Flesher Field and Oshtemo Township Park. OCBA used a participatory process that included design charrettes for the parks.

OCBA was retained to redevelop Fountain Plaza in the heart of WMU’s main campus.

Camp Tecumseh comprises over 500 acres of land adjacent to the Tecumseh bend of the Tippecanoe River. An extremely successful and well-established camp program had resulted in a waiting list for summer camp of over 600 children each year.