Partners

Beginning in 2019, as part of the Master Planning Process, significant work has been done to assess the feasibility of, and prepare for an exterior and interior restoration of this historic place of worship and ministry. To assess the conditions, estimate the work and plan the extensive project, a team of renowned experts has been assembled.

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Architect

HGA is a national interdisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture and engineering. Their mission is to create a positive, lasting impact through design. They value empathy, are fueled by curiosity, and embrace the hard work that leads to innovation. Selected through an extensive search process, they were chosen to build a team to restore The Basilica of Saint Mary.

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Contractor

Mortenson is a top 25 builder and developer fully invested in their customers’ success and improving the communities in which they live and work. They strive to be known for making sure the built environment has a lasting positive impact and to make projects better than imagined possible.

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Architectural Restoration & Preservation

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Evergreene Architectural Arts is the largest specialty contractor in the U.S., focused on the preservation of historic buildings, artifacts, and works of art. The Evergreene team has contributed to the restoration and preservation of many of our country’s most significant and iconic masterpieces. Evergreene provides custom solutions for complex adaptive reuse and heritage preservation efforts. Multi-disciplinary teams are comprised of conservators, designers, craftspeople, artists, and project managers.

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Stained Glass Conservation

Liberty Stained Glass Conservation, LLC offers independent consultancy to ensure the responsible and ethical treatment of American stained-glass windows for our generation and those to come. Liberty considers stained glass as its own art form within a building and recognizes that each environment, building, and window is unique. Each project is independently evaluated.

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Lighting Design

Fisher, Marantz, Stone: Interior and Exterior Lighting, with offices in New York and Seattle, is an architectural lighting design firm specializing in offering complete planning, design and commissioning services specializing in museums, performing arts and unique sites around the world. They have designed lighting for the 911 Memorial Plaza in NYC, Carnegie Hall, the Central Synagogue and other significant sites internationally.

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Sound | AV

Kirkegaard Associates is a design and consulting firm that specializes in architectural acoustics and integrated systems. Their portfolio includes nearly 3,000 successful projects including auditoria, concert halls, theaters, schools of music and the arts, recording and broadcast studios, libraries, corporate offices and many other acoustically sensitive environments in North and South America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. For houses of worship, they work as part of a team to harmoniously wed a room’s architectural and acoustic forms, crafting the magnificence of music and speech in sacred spaces.

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Strategy

Creative Fundraising Advisors (CFA) provides strategic fundraising counsel to
help nonprofit organizations achieve their vision. A full-service, fundraising consulting firm, the CFA team has more than 200 years of collective experience in philanthropy. Since their inception in 2014, they have raised more than $3 billion in partnership with their nonprofit clients throughout the country.