Ashley Sarver, AICP
principal
Ashley is passionate about sustainable and equitable improvements in communities. She sees this vision as attainable through the partnering of urban planning, design, and intentional real estate development. Her specialties lie in historic real estate finance, corridor and downtown planning, and envisioning new spaces within old buildings. She’s affectionately known as the “planitect” by her coworkers for her ability to dip into the design world just enough to be dangerous. She seamlessly connects vision to project feasibility. When she is not planitecting, she likes to bike (trails, road, gravel – doesn’t matter!) and teach her two terriers new tricks.
Ashley earned her Master of Urban Planning and Policy from University of Illinois, Chicago and further training in Historic Real Estate Finance from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She sits on multiple boards, including the Natural Land Institute and I Bike Rockford.
most impactful place
Antigua, Guatemala. I love that the city is designed at a very human scale, very walkable, with a lot of life happening out in the public areas or interior courtyards of buildings. Plus, that area produces a lot of coffee (my other passion) in the surrounding mountains!
