Regenerative Design for Inspired Communities
Sblendorio Partners creates place-based, environmentally friendly, and exceptionally beautiful sustainable communities. Unlike most developers who have a core competency in one type of development—tract housing, commercial high rises, shopping centers—our strength is in developing what is right for each individual site.
Green development can and should be a process that provides for the growth and redevelopment of communities while also preserving and restoring natural resources.
Our company grew out of the realization that individual homeowners who want to incorporate regenerative design into their lifestyles and homes are often at a disadvantage from the start. With traditional development, much of the damage done to our land and our natural environment occurs before homeowners even choose their homes. We offer the antidote to traditional development. Designing and building with respect for the environment entails doing so from the absolute beginning of a project. The goals for every one of our development projects are to leave sites healthier and more productive after development than they were before, and to create something truly luxurious in its enjoyment of nature. We achieve these goals by taking a regenerative approach to each project.
Every piece of land, like every individual, has a story to tell. We rely on both the sites themselves as well as stakeholders with a vested interest in what happens to the sites to tell those stories. As a result, we are able to develop relationships that allow us to create developments that please and excite both neighbors and regulators, that address community needs, and that act as models for regenerative design and development.
The following are examples of the kinds of measures we incorporate into our developments. For more detailed information about our projects, please read our case studies or contact us.
- Siting buildings and infrastructure to respect natural systems on the site and to allow home sites to take advantage of passive heating and cooling.
- Using green development and green building techniques to ensure the long-term health of the site and future occupants, as well as to reduce the use of natural resources on the site.
- Creating new constructed wetlands to treat and clean stormwater naturally so that water is returned to the aquifer free of pollutants.
- Creating decentralized water retention basins that treat water throughout the site rather than forcing it to a centralized location to avoid the concentration of pollutants and disruption of natural systems on the site.
- Seeding new meadows to create increased habitat for local wildlife and to help prevent runoff.
- Using renewable energy sources to reduce the ecological footprint of the site.
- Using forest management practices to nurture wooded areas back to health with more high resource value trees and a more productive understory.
In addition to the bricks-and-mortar development that we do, we are also active as advocates for regenerative design, natural resource protection and management, coordinated land planning, and other aspects of responsible land use. We aim to not only work in and with communities, but to educate them about how they can continue to incorporate regenerative design into their municipal systems and projects.