We plan, design, fund, and build resilient, right-sized regional infrastructure.
Midcourse Design & Development, with our partners at Larklea, fills a critical gap in the food system: we are dedicated to delivering beautiful, functional, investment-ready infrastructure that is rooted in community. We bring architecture, operations, and capital planning under one roof, working from ideation to implementation to catalyze a network of regional food infrastructure that is equitable, beautiful, and resilient.
Doing this integrated and interdisciplinary work means we are involved across many phases of a project’s life cycle. We work closely with partners to tailor our scope of work to the needs of their project, and meet organizations where they are.
Please reach out with questions, to share more about your project, or to discuss scoping a collaboration!
Our Services
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Facility Planning & Concept Design
We believe that transformative infrastructure begins with transformative ideas. We approach concept design as a creative, strategic process to define bold ambitions rooted in the social, ecological, and operational realities of each project.
In our concept design phase, we define what to build, where, and for whom, and translate complex needs into visionary, actionable design. We lead interdisciplinary processes that combine architectural imagination with systems thinking, aligning spatial and operational planning with community goals and financial feasibility.
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Development & Project Financing
We partner with operators to craft clear project delivery plans, raise predevelopment funds, and model capital stacks. By working in parallel with design, we keep momentum strong and projects on track toward financing and construction.
We specialize in the high-risk, high-cost predevelopment phase, where many projects stall. Alongside our partners at Larklea, we deploy flexible capital through convertible grants and mission-aligned investment. We help funders back shovel-ready, regenerative infrastructure at the right scale and timeline.
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Full-Service Architecture
We provide design leadership from concept to construction, crafting buildings that are operationally efficient, ecologically grounded, and architecturally significant. Beyond solving technical challenges, our design work centers food systems as essential civic space.
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Regional Mapping & Planning
We develop analytical and visual mapping tools to illuminate the full regional food landscape – tracking flows, identifying gaps, and prioritizing investment opportunities. These tools support coordinated action across public, private, and philanthropic sectors, and guide system-scale decisions about what infrastructure to build and where.