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Cynthia Behan’s work takes her all over New York state and New England states\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BY JILL NAGY<\/p>\n

Cynthia Behan, a principal in Behan Planning
\nand Design, DPC, eased into full-time
\nresponsibility slowly, working part-time from
\nhome when she had small children.<\/p>\n

Today, with the children in their 20s and
\nonly one of them still at home, the landscape
\narchitect and designer is a principal in a
\nbusiness with nine employees and offices in
\nSaratoga Springs and New City, Rockland
\nCounty, New York.<\/p>\n

She began helping with her husband’s
\nbusiness, Planning Associates, formed some
\n20 years ago in Saratoga Springs. Later, she
\ncreated her own company, Behan Design. The two merged to form Behan Planning
\nand Design, a design professional corporation
\n(DPC).<\/p>\n

Behan has a masters degree in landscape
\narchitecture from the University of
\nMassachusetts and is a licensed landscape
\narchitect. Her husband, John Behan, is an
\nurban planner. The company offers services
\nin community planning, creation of green
\ninfrastructure and landscape architecture.<\/p>\n

They recently added a professional engineer
\nwith experience in subdivision planning and
\nproject management to their staff with a view
\nto expanding into that area as well.<\/p>\n

Their work takes them all over New York
\nand New England, Behan said. Recent projects
\nincluded work on the Clifton Park town
\ncenter, landscaping on Clifton Country Road,
\nand projects in Albany’s Arbor Hill neighborhood
\nand Hudson River riverfront.<\/p>\n

The firm’s design of the South Main
\nStreetscape Project in New City received the
\n2014 Merit Award of Achievement from the
\nNew York Upstate Chapter of the American
\nSociety of Landscape Architects. That award
\njoins many others on the walls of the firm’s
\noffices.<\/p>\n

Behan grew up in Newburgh, N.Y., the
\nhome of Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick
\nLaw Olmstead’s mentor. If Olmstead is the
\nfather of landscape architecture in the United
\nStates, Downing has to be the grandfather,
\nBehan said. A park in Newburgh, designed by
\nOlmstead, is dedicated to Downing’s memory.<\/p>\n

Landscape architecture must have been in
\nthe air in Newburgh. When she was in ninth
\ngrade, Behan’s guidance counselor told her
\nthat she should be a landscape architect.
\nUnfortunately, neither the counselor nor Behan
\nknew exactly what a landscape architect
\ndoes, she recalled, and “there was no Internet
\nto look it up.” However, for the daughter of a
\ncivil engineer father and an artistic mother,
\nit turned out to be a good fit.<\/p>\n

Her work is not just picking out plants but
\nhas many other components, she explained,
\nincluding community planning, street design,
\nredefining what a street looks like, including
\nsuch factors as parking and traffic circulation.
\nIn fact, she is “not a great gardener,”
\nalthough she has a strong interest in plants
\nand gardens, “but not enough time to do it
\nmyself.”<\/p>\n

She finds that being a woman has not been
\na factor in her professional life, at least not
\nlately. “I’m glad the world has changed and
\nwomen are accepted in professional roles,”
\nshe said, “I am no longer the only woman at
\nthe table.”<\/p>\n

The staff of Behan Planning and Design has
\na good balance of men and women, she noted.
\nOn the other hand, she thinks that women
\noften have a different way of looking at things
\nthan men do. “It’s hard to define,” she noted.<\/p>\n

There have been challenges to working
\nwith her husband, she said, but would not
\nelaborate. “He is supportive and helped me
\nall along the way,” she said, and helps with
\nhis share of the housework as well.<\/p>\n

Two of their children have gone off into different professional directions: one is in
\nmedical school and the other works in finance
\nin Chicago. The youngest one, however, a
\ncommunity college student, is interested in
\nsustainability and some of the things the firm
\ndoes, she said.<\/p>\n

The Saratoga Springs office of Behan Planning
\nand Design is at 112 Spring St., Suite 305.
\nThe telephone number is 583-4335. The New
\nCity office is at 151 Main St., Suite 200. That
\ntelephone number is (845) 499-2060.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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