About Arbor

Arbor Land Design: A Fifty-Year Legacy of Inspired Work

A nationally recognized firm known for our work in landscape architecture, civil engineering, land planning and land surveying, Arbor continues to expand its breadth of services and professional expertise. Originally launched as Arbor Engineering, Inc. in 1976, the company merged with the surveying and engineering specialists Fant Reichert & Fogleman in 2021.

Rebranded today as Arbor Land Design, the firm today offers the region’s most comprehensive scope of services impacting the way land is shaped, developed and enjoyed. From surveying to engineering, Arbor offers a legacy of unparalleled insight, guidance, creativity and excellence from conception to completion.

A Client-Driven Approach

It may sound obvious at first read, but not every firm approaches a project with your vision, objectives, parameters, timeline, and budget at the center of the discussion. At Arbor, we concentrate on asking thoughtful questions and listening actively to clarify and refine your ideas. Your goals shape the way we think, design, and execute.

Across all types of work, we seek clients that enjoy collaboration and exploration. As a unique team of surveyors, engineers, planners, and landscape architects, we’re committed to creating enduring, remarkable places. From a rejuvenating backyard oasis to inviting parks, imaginative recreational complexes, impressive corporate landscapes, graceful residential communities, and vibrant town centers, Arbor does it all with love, patience, and purpose.

“So often, nature has given us the answer, if we will but look.”
– JD Martin, Founder

We owe much to the inspiration and inspired leadership of Arbor’s founder JD Martin and Chip Fogleman, recently retired as CEO of Fant Reichert & Fogleman. Their natural curiosity, passion for client service, and attention to detail continue to inspire our work.

At JD’s essence was a deep connection to nature’s perfect aesthetics. “I think a good landscape architect understands that before he actually starts drawing. He sees the third dimension in his mind’s eye before he draws it on paper.”

We invite you to spend three minutes at his side as he talks about his passion for landscape architecture.

There’s a Little Bit of Falls Park in Everything We Do.

Greenville, South Carolina was a very different place in 1976, when Arbor Engineering was born. Today’s much-celebrated Main Street was just another sterile 4-lane road through a lifeless downtown. A year later, a new vision for Greenville was in the works, and by 1979, the trees that would one day create the city’s lush canopy were planted.

For Arbor, it was a perfect time to join with civic leaders, developers and residents in rethinking how landscapes could draw people together and connect them to nature’s own creative energy.

Almost fifty years later, you can see our signature throughout the Upstate. Perhaps nowhere is our work more visible than Greenville’s Falls Park. Now more than twenty years since its opening, the Park works on so many levels (literally and otherwise) to bring happiness, togetherness, and mindfulness to all who visit.