{"id":35475,"date":"2022-07-14T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/?p=35475"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:03:21","slug":"in-25-years-as-owner-of-cla-site-loyola-has-seen-industry-changes-and-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2022\/07\/in-25-years-as-owner-of-cla-site-loyola-has-seen-industry-changes-and-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"In 25 Years As Owner Of CLA SITE, Loyola Has Seen Industry Changes And Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Loyola, center, poses with the staff of his CLA SITE business at SPAC in front of new buildings his firm helped design. He has owned the business for 25 years.
\u00a92022 Saratoga Photographer.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Jill Nagy<\/p>\n

Landscape architects do far more than decide where to lay sod and plant flowers. Companies like the Saratoga Spring landscape architecture firm CLA SITE\u2014which is celebrating 25 years in business\u2014are far more complex.<\/p>\n

Among its projects was the redesigned of the concession area at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, including siting the new buildings and redoing the stormwater management plan. The company is also working with Envision Architects to develop a new indoor\/outdoor market complex in Glens Falls.<\/p>\n

It is also redoing part of Albany\u2019s Empire State Plaza to alleviate drainage and stormwater problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLawns are for entry level folks,\u201d said Peter Loyola, the company\u2019s founder and principal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s landscape architect combines aspects of civil engineering, architecture, and urban planning, as well as environmental permitting. The full name of the company reflects that pedigree: CLA Site Landscape Architecture, Engineering, and Planning PC.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Loyola started the company in order to work on technical problems like stormwater management, drainage issues, subdivision site plans, and master plans for residential subdivisions. CLA can site the houses, plan the roads, look at driveway features, and, when they have it all planned out, make a presentation to a planning board and get the site plan approved, Loyola said.<\/p>\n

In Corinth, for example, the company is incorporating \u201cgreen infrastructure\u201d into a road construction and streetscape improvement project. In Fort Ann, they are engaged in a remediation project to allow a stream filled with silt to run free again.<\/p>\n

The growing challenges and variety of his field inspired Loyola to start his own company. After more than a decade working for another company, he said, \u201cI wanted to take a shot on my own and make it a company bigger than myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biggest change Loyola has seen is not anything technical. It is the growing need to maintain flexible schedules and maintain a good work\/life balance amid a different culture of work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat has never been more important,\u201d he said. For CLA, a company where many people already worked from home, \u201cit was a fairly easy transition\u201d when the COVID pandemic disrupted traditional office routines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not that he hasn\u2019t seen\u2014and benefited from\u2014technical improvements. He noted that computer software and technology have greatly improved, making both design and research easier. Photo simulation techniques have also improved.<\/p>\n

The company has grown to a nine-member team of licensed landscape architects, site civil engineers, a market coordinator and an office manager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have great professional capabilities for such a small office,\u201d Loyola said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In recognition of that, CLA SITE received the Upstate Chapter of ASLA Merit Award and People\u2019s Choice Award in 2022 for its design of the Pedestrian Art Plaza in Rome, N.Y.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CLA SITE celebrated the silver anniversary with a party on July 12 at the Cantina in Saratoga Springs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Loyola grew up near Stowe, Vt., and graduated from the SUNY College of Environmental\u00a0 <\/span>Science and Forestry in Syracuse. He is a registered landscape architect and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.<\/p>\n

The company is located at 58 Church St., Suite 200, in Saratoga Sprigs. The telephone number is 518 584-8661. The website is www.clasite.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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