Building communities, economies and futures.
We create integrated Eco-systems that connect physical places with meaningful lifestyle experiences. By aligning stakeholders and bringing together placemaking, economic planning, development coordination, and environmental performance, we help move complex community projects from vision to implementation. Together, these disciplines create a clear path toward places that enrich daily life, strengthen community identity and foster resilient, thriving economies.
Placemaking
One vision. Every system works in symbiosis together.
EverGreen Alliances is a multidisciplinary development, design and project-integration Collective. Each engagement is structured around the needs of the place. The vision is clearly defined and expertise executes the implementation.
Where It Matters Most
Every decision—where people live, how they move, where opportunity grows, and how natural systems are protected—shapes the life, identity and future of a community.
Value
Enduring asset value and market relevance—supported by disciplined investment, economic viability and strong operational performance.
Performance
Turn ambitious goals into measurable improvements in energy, water, materials, resilience and operations—reducing risk and strengthening performance throughout the asset lifecycle.
Community
Build trust, belonging and local opportunity by aligning development with community identity, stakeholder priorities and the people who will shape its future.
Design
Translate strategy into distinctive, context responsive environments that function efficiently, strengthen identity and invite people to live, work, gather, and return.
Well-being
Support healthier, more restorative daily experiences through cleaner air, natural light, thermal and acoustic comfort, access to nature, movement and human connection.
What we do
We work across sectors establishing the strategy, team, performance criteria and implementation structure appropriate to each project.
Strategic Partnerships
We bring owners, governments, investors, institutions, design professionals, operators, and community stakeholders into purposeful alignment—clearly defining the vision for expertise to implement.
Development Advisory
We turn ambition into an actionable development path through visioning, feasibility development coordination, project positioning, public-private strategy, capital readiness and implementation planning.
Design & Placemaking
We build spaces people recognize, cherish and choose to inhabit—integrating design vision, master-planning coordination, architecture exterior, interiors, local food production, adaptive reuse, public realm and experiential environments.
Community & District Strategy
We connect housing, hospitality, commerce, farm food systems, mobility, culture and public life to strengthen local identity, participation and economic opportunity.
Healthy & High-Performance Environments
We establish project-specific performance criteria for energy, water, materials, indoor air quality, daylight, thermal and acoustic comfort, operational resilience, and long-term asset value—turning broad sustainability goals into clear priorities that guide design, implementation and evaluation.
Innovation Hubs
We create the strategic framework for environments where enterprise, education, research, climate technology, creative industries, production and workforce development can connect and grow.
Brand & Experience
We translate the character and purpose of a place into a distinctive identity—aligning positioning, narrative, investor communications, programming, licensing strategy and market development.
Technology Integration
We evaluate building controls, monitoring, automation, modular construction and digital infrastructure against defined operational needs and lifecycle value.
The Right Expertise at Every Stage
EverGreen Alliances assembles the right specialists at the right moment—drawing on a trusted network of architects, engineers, sustainability experts, technology integrators, investors, operators, and community facilitators. Each engagement is structured around what the project actually needs, not a fixed service menu.
How the vision takes shape
Turning Vision into Clear Action into: VALUE
Every project begins with a clear articulation of vision—what the place is for, who it serves, and what it must achieve. From there, EverGreen Alliances structures the strategy, assembles the team, and coordinates the disciplines needed to move from concept to implementation. The result is not just a plan—it is a place.
Designed as a whole Eco-system. Built through partnerships. Measured by what endures.
Who we work with
EverGreen Alliances partners with those with vision, authority, capital and knowledge required to advance complex place-based initiatives.
Leadership across the disciplines that shape the place.
Sarah J.P. Maxwell
Principal · Placemaking · Community Development · Strategic Partnerships
Sarah J.P. Maxwell is a placemaking strategist and community development leader with over two decades of experience guiding complex, multi-stakeholder projects from vision to implementation. Her work spans urban revitalization, rural regeneration, mixed-use development, and community-centered master planning across North America and internationally.
Sarah brings together the disciplines of economic development, design strategy, stakeholder engagement, and environmental performance to create places that are both economically viable and deeply rooted in community identity. She has worked with municipalities, family offices, mission-aligned developers, Indigenous communities, and institutional partners to structure the frameworks, partnerships, and implementation pathways that move ambitious projects forward.
Her approach is grounded in the belief that the most enduring places are built through genuine alignment—between vision and expertise, between community and capital, between what a place is and what it can become.
Kiran Waters
Principal · Economic Development · Investment Strategy · Public-Private Partnerships
Kiran Waters is an economic development strategist and investment advisor with deep expertise in structuring public-private partnerships, capital readiness, and place-based economic planning. She has spent her career helping communities and organizations translate complex development goals into financially viable, implementable strategies.
Kiran's work focuses on the intersection of investment, community benefit, and long-term economic resilience. She brings a rigorous analytical lens to feasibility, project positioning, and capital strategy—while keeping the human and environmental dimensions of development at the center of every engagement.
She has advised municipalities, regional governments, development corporations, and mission-aligned investors on projects ranging from innovation districts and mixed-use communities to rural economic regeneration and green infrastructure investment.
Muguette Petoe
Principal · Global Real Estate Design Build · Development · Design Strategy · Planning
Muguette Petoe is the founder of Seed One, a Real Estate Development Design Build Studio working at the intersection of Real Estate, Hospitality and Lifestyle Retail Brands. Muguette has over 25 years experience designing for Lifestyle Brands: Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan/LVMH, and many others.
She has developed, owned/operated Melt Restaurant/Bar and Rare Earth Farm to Table Restaurant/Bar/Cafe in NYC for over 12 years. Her multidisciplinary background spans architecture, interior design, brand strategy, and real estate development—bringing a rare integration of design vision and operational experience to every project she leads.