Panlilio Landscaping

PING PANLILIO LANDSCAPE & DESIGN INC PARTICIPATES IN BUILDING NYC PARK ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA DONATES PARK

Elizabeth NJ — As a member of the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) Ping Panlilio Landscape & Design Inc. recently met with other landscape design professionals to create the design for a park that will be built near the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. “We are honored to be part of this significant contribution to the citizens of Lower Manhattan and to be able to lend our design expertise,” states Ping Panlilio.

ALCA initially offered to help with the park design and installation at Ground Zero and spoke with some of the architects who donated their design expertise for the site. With the timing and design still in question at Ground Zero, the City of New York Parks and Recreation and the Lower Manhattan Development Group suggested another site.
They offered ALCA a site very close to Ground Zero that is just over one-half acre in in size. It is the site where firefighters, police and the Red Cross staged their activities during the cleanup efforts and it is just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Final design details for this park are being worked out, and ALCA members are being solicited for in-kind and cash contributions. The park is scheduled to be completed by September 11, 2004.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for ALCA members to all work together”, adds Ping Panlilio. “This is an industry that has the unusual capability of putting competition aside and working together. We also have a sincere passion for this project.”

Following September 11, New York City has struggled with extreme budget cuts due to the enormous rebuilding costs and the loss of tourism and other revenue in Lower Manhattan. “The people of Lower Manhattan have also suffered during all of this,” notes Ping Panlilio. “This significant patch of green space is very important to them and their quality of life. We are honored to be able to help.” The park will be donated in honor of the heroes of September 11.

Ping Panlilio Landscape and Design was created to provide services that are both advance technically and art culturally. Their creations are a subtle blending of Asian, Western and indigenous concepts - a combination of textures, colors, heights, aroma and decorative elements marks a garden that is typically theirs.

Ping Panlilio also exercises artistic control over his chosen environment, but unlike most visual artists who work with paint or clay, he has chosen living plants for his materials. Then through his unique vision, his understanding of natural rhythms inherent in his materials and his knowledge of the palette available to him, he fashions them into the beautiful landscapes of an organized garden.

“I rarely refer to my work as formal gardens” he says, “because a formal garden to me connotes a specified European style. Rather, my gardens are planned environments – employing color, texture, elevations and even aromas – to make an aesthetically pleasing statement.”

ALCA represents approximately 2,800 members nationwide including its core memberhsip of professional exterior and interior landscape maintenance, installation, and design/build firms and suppliers. For more information on ALCA, call Laurie Saunders at (800) 395-2522, or visit the ALCA Web site at www.alca.org.

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