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The Bennie and Joyce Gatto Historic Trail – The Value of Trails and Volunteerism

The Value of Trails The creation of trails within neighborhoods provides both health and transportation benefits to the residents and community overall. Trails provide people of all ages safe, accessible places to take part in recreational activities such as jogging, cycling, or skating. A well-planned network of trails can also make it easy for residents […]

Miracle League Inclusive Facility

O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company is providing landscape architecture services to support the development of an inclusive facility for Miracle League Fields in Redwood City. The Miracle League’s mission is to provide opportunities for children with disabilities to play Miracle League baseball, regardless of their abilities. This mission aligns perfectly with our team’s passion to […]

Hyatt House & Hyatt Place

O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company is providing planning and design services to support the development of the Hyatt House & Hyatt Place in Livermore, CA. As part of planning approvals, a conceptual site plan, preliminary grading and utility studies, conceptual landscape plans, and renderings were completed. Focused on enhancing both an extended stay experience for […]

EmPOWERment Park

The Sacramento Parks Foundation was awarded $6,280,000 in Prop 68 funds for this project. O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company provided grant assistance, public outreach, conceptual design, and estimating support to the Foundation. Our team developed a master plan for EmPOWERment Park, an outreach program (Placemaking Through Play) to maximize grant points, and the actual grant […]

Prop 68 – Improving One California Community at a Time

What is Prop 68? The Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Program (Prop 68) is a competitive grant program that creates new parks and recreation opportunities in underserved communities across the state of California. Each of these parks and playgrounds will positively impact families, children, and adults alike by providing increased access to recreation. O’Dell […]

Salado Avenue and 7th Street Roundabout

O’Dell Engineering, a Westwood company provided civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and utility coordination services for this CML-funded traffic calming and safety project in Caltrans District 10. The project included a roundabout, improved traffic efficiency, reduced emissions, and pedestrian crosswalks. The goal of the project was to ease congestion and pedestrian traffic by converting […]

O’Dell Engineering Named One of the “2020 Best Places to Work: Central Valley”

What makes a great place to work? It’s definitely not four walls, office furniture, and free coffee. Is it the latest technology? That certainly helps. Is it awesome benefits? Those are nice too. But when you really boil down a terrific job, a wonderful office, and a great professional experience, the heart of the matter […]

May Nissen Park Awarded CARPD Outstanding Renovated Facility

O’Dell Engineering is delighted to announce that Livermore Area Recreation and Park District – LARPD has been awarded the California Association of Recreation and Park Districts Award of Distinction for Outstanding Renovated Facility for May Nissen Community Park.  We loved the opportunity to assist LARPD with the development of this 100% socially inclusive park in […]

May Nissen Park Awarded CPRS District 3 Outstanding Park

We are so excited for our client Livermore Area Recreation and Park District – LARPD who received the CPRS District 3 Outstanding Park award for May Nissen Park. We loved creating this magical (literally, it is fairy-tale themed) park with LARPD! May Nissen Playground is a 1.88-acre playground in Livermore, CA adjacent to a local […]

EmPOWERment Park Awarded $6.28 Million in Prop 68 Funding

In amazing news this week, our client, the Sacramento Parks Foundation, was awarded $6,280,000 in Prop 68 funds for EmPOWERment Park! This amazing park in Sacramento County will include a parking lot with 11 ADA spaces, a round-a-bout, a drop-off zone, welcome signage and a tactile park map, a community garden, a storage shed, an […]