meet the team

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Regina Morales

President

Regina Morales serves as the CEO and manages the administrative/planning for GSA.  She has 25 years’ experience in the economic / community development business through her previous roles.  She has assisted communities and developers in the planning and implementation of projects that create jobs, sustainable economic vitality and quality community environments.  Her experience in developing public private partnerships enabled communities and developers to achieve cost effective enhanced projects that build better communities.  These public private partnership projects resulted in $150 million investments in building better communities and parks.  Some of her more notable projects included Constellation Field, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Smart Financial Centre and the Joint CIP Parks Program at City of Sugar Land.  She was responsible for overseeing the implementation, planning, design and budgeting of each project.

She previously served on the Board of Directors to Scenic Houston and cochaired the creation of the statewide “Scenic City” beautification program in Texas aimed at encouraging cities to enhance their beautification efforts and through an application and ranking process.  Additionally, she has been involved with TNLA, TEDC, NAIOP, NAR, IEDC, CREW, and CCIM (CCIM Designee).

Justin Morales

Vice President

Justin Morales has been with GreenScape Associates since 2005 and has been instrumental in the growth and technology advances for the Company.  Justin serves in the COO role and manages the operations in addition to overseeing the Design Division of the Company.  His previous experience in website design and project management prepared him for his responsibilities in expanding our Design Division as both the lead designer for design build projects and subcontractor to major architecture firms such as PBK, Stantec, RVA and others.  Additionally, Justin has a Texas Irrigation License, is a Certified Texas Master Gardener and trained through TCEQ Complete Hydraulics.

Michael Brooks

Project Manager

Michael joined Green Scape Associates in 2023 and brings 35 years of experience in the landscape industry. Including 10 years of golf course construction, 18 years as owner operator of his own landscape company in the Northeast, and previously working for the world’s largest landscape companies. Michael will be bringing all his knowledge to GreenScape Associates. He will be over seeing our commercial projects as our lead Project Manager.

Jeffrey Lipke

Maintenance Manager

Jeff is new to the team, recently joining Greenscape Associates in 2023 bringing over 20 years of experience in Landscape Development, Irrigation& Drainage as well as OSHA safety certifications. In his experience, Jeff has overseen multiple high end residential projects, athletic field installations that include professional sports facilities and many new construction projects both large and small throughout his career.

chase Nawara

Project Manager

Rachel Rock-Goldsmith

Designer

Since 2019, Rachel has been on GreenScape Associates Design team, as a Landscape/Park Designer/Assistant Project Manager. She brings 14 years of experience in working for developers, MUD’s, HOA’s, and private clients on a multitude of projects, including but not limited to recreation facilities, parks/playgrounds and other open spaces, subdivision planning, parking lot layouts, and trail systems design. She received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Minor in Land Planning from Texas A&M University, College, Station TX.

Michael Canaday

Estimator

Michael joined the GreenScape team in 2021 after 18 years in the service industry. Starting in our irrigation division as a field
technician he has quickly shown his abilities to adapt and learn on the fly. Since early 2022 Michael has been working with our senior team members to quickly learn the construction end of our industry and evolved our estimating ability to become more competitive and responsive to our client’s request.

Brett Legendre

Landscape Architect

Brett has been with GreenScape Associates since 2004 as the Landscape Architect. He was a Cum Laude graduate in Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University and interned at Clark Condon Associates. He has creatively designed commercial, residential, parkways, trails and parks for GSA for over 18 years. His projects are reflected throughout this document and he prepares construction documents, cost estimates, schematic design and rendered presentation drawings.

Jim Sheffer

Field Supervisor