For the the most visited park in the State of Kansas, SFS restored and rehabilitated its existing marina building, expanded its ticketing and staff operations, and constructed a new boat storage and restroom buildings to meet increasing demands.

As Sedalia's new "front porch," the Heckart Community Center is a vibrant and inclusive social hub, fostering community connection and integrating the city’s past and promising future.

SFS was tasked with uniting the operational services of the City of Bonner Springs, Kansas into one complex. To do so, our team transformed a 1918 school building listed on both the Register of Historic Kansas Places and the National Register of Historic Places into a city hall and constructed a new police facility adjacent to the historic building.

This intervention to a mid-century church convers playfully with the original building and counters its curves with a concave limestone facade. Inside, the once dark worship space is brightened by the addition of a large skylight and refined through careful balancing of existing and new features.

The new Young’s Park bathhouse provides much-needed indoor and outdoor activity spaces with a year-round shelter featuring movable exterior partitions and gates.

Fire Station 48 prioritizes occupational health with contamination control measures, emphasizes sleep equity and mental health in living quarters, accommodates gender ratio changes, and sets the city's fire station sustainability standards.

Needing to expand upon their services to the community, the largest no-kill pet adoption campus in Kansas City did so with a new education facility and rehabilitation center for neglected and abused animals incorporating both indoor and outdoor spaces.

This universally accessible observation tower, clad in sight-screening galvanized steel bar-grate, affords expansive views to the surrounding prairie as visitors ascend the ever-changing experience of sunlight and shadow, landscape, season and weather.

Landscape and lakescape are united as two new park structures, Eagles Landing and The Marina, deliver event-space and water-craft rental amenities at Lake Olathe Park.

The 88-acre Meadowbrook Park is part of a larger redevelopment effort transforming the former Meadowbrook Golf and Country Club into a vibrant mixed-use community. The park includes a variety of active and passive recreational amenities, including native landscaping, trails, accessible play structures, picnic shelters, large pavilion and 12,000 square foot activity center.

SFS transformed a 1950’s bowling alley, ice rink and billiards hall into a 76,000 square foot community center.

SFS worked with the City of Excelsior Springs to develop a business plan, facility program and design for a community center that is affordable to operate and maintain.