At PMA, our professional personnel bring specialized experience that fosters a balance of technical, planning, design, research, and management expertise, with personnel meeting the Secretary of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Professional Qualification Standards. We excel in technical leadership for historic properties, and provide historic advocacy leadership within our community. We are sought after by our clients for our sensitivity to adapting and renovating existing and historic properties.
At a Glance
PMA Founder and Principal, Peter Meijer AIA, NCARB, leads the firm with over 30 years of professional experience. Peter’s career has focused largely on building envelope science and historic preservation, specifically historic renovations and condition assessments of existing and historic buildings. He leads the firm with unmatched skill, knowledge, and understanding of the unique building envelope sciences associated with existing and historic building materials.
Halla Hoffer, AIA, Assoc. DBIA, is passionate about rehabilitating historic and existing architecture. She has a unique understanding of the materials and construction techniques appropriate to educational, civic, and multifamily facilities. Halla received her DBIA certification from the Design-Build Institute of America – the only organization that defines, teaches and promotes best practices in design-build project delivery.
Hali Knight applies creativity from her architecture and art background to provide comprehensive design services in support of client goals. While at PMA, Hali has completed numerous projects, primarily with a focus on restoration and building enclosure design for historic civic and educational facilities, and tenant improvements. She is passionate about community-based design.
Jessica Schmitt is a Preservation Planner with experience on a wide variety of preservation projects. Her specialties include communicating and coordinating project deliverables with local, state, and federal historic review agencies, National Register Nominations, Federal Historic Tax Credit applications, State Historic Incentives, and conducting historic resource evaluations and surveys.
Skyla Leavitt’s interest in architecture and design began in grade school, and has since grown into a career dedicated to solving unique building enclosure challenges for historic properties. She is a team player that strives to bring preservation to the community in a way that is approachable, supportive, and celebrates local history.
Garrett Collins, AIA is passionate about creating spaces that make life better for their inhabitants and that make for a pleasing dialogue with their surrounding environments through creative reuse, restoration, and contemporary forms. His career has included several commercial, retail, and residential projects spanning renovations, reuse, and new construction.
Kate Hoffrogge has dabbled in both design and marketing, with over ten years in the A/E industry. She’s developed a love for the challenge of marketing and a unique graphics skillset.
Our Commitment to Sutainability
Our practice is focused on projects that re-use, rehabilitate, recycle, and advocate for historic preservation. Working with existing materials and finding ways to reuse or recycle them saves resources from going straight to the landfill and reduces the loss of embodied energy. When new materials are incorporated, we strive to use ones that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Environmental stewardship is also important in our daily office routines. We actively seek ways to reduce, reuse, recycle – from the products we use, to monitoring our energy and water usage, to our transportation, employee engagement, and community involvement. As part of our commitment to sustainability, we have a green office coordinator and LEED accredited staff. Our office holds a third-party sustainability certification from the City of Portland’s Sustainability at Work division. We received the highest level of certification, Gold Certified Green Business.
