Balancing what matters with what works.
Visionary Plans, Grounded Results
We partner with communities to turn local vision into place-based, market-feasible plans that get built.
Cascadia Partners is a spatial planning firm.
We anchor every plan, policy, and strategy to a specific place. Plans built on local market conditions and tangible physical outcomes, rather than abstract policy, are far more likely to get implemented. And when people can picture change in places they know and care about, they engage more meaningfully.
Our spatial planning focus connects zoning codes to real development economics, comprehensive plans to the neighborhoods they reshape, and housing strategies to the parcels and corridors where housing can actually get built.
Planning works when every discipline that shapes a place sits at the same table.
Cascadia is vertically integrated by design: planners, economists, urban designers, policy writers, and engagement specialists work as one team — so pro forma findings shape code drafts, design ideas get stress-tested against market reality, and community input loops back into the analysis.
From vision to final implementation.
Plans that get adopted, strategies that get funded, and codes that get built.
Integrated Expertise in Action
Great places aren’t built in a vacuum. See how we bring planning, analytics, real estate economics, design, and community engagement together on a single project — the integration that makes our spatial planning work.
WHO WE SERVE
cities ⋅ counties ⋅ nonprofits ⋅ developers
We’re the lead partner for communities at an inflection point — facing rapid growth, needed repair, or complex reinvestment.
Trusted by public agencies and institutions across the country — from Portland to Nashville, Sacramento to Pittsburgh.
Trusted by public agencies and institutions across the country — from Portland to Nashville, Sacramento to Pittsburgh.
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“I’m really happy about this process… including more housing options is really going to address the future needs of Yachats.”
Councilor Nicole Hedlund
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“We want to hire [Cascadia] again because of the trust and confidence you built with the community and City Council. They trust you.”
City Administrator Nolan Young
Fairview, Oregon
The work in numbers
Projects
220
States
24
Years
9
Founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2017
Comprehensive plans, zoning reform, housing policy, real estate strategy, urban design, and climate and parks planning