Friends of Piedmont Way is a non-profit organization working in partnership with the City of Berkeley and the University of California to rehabilitate Frederick Law Olmsted's first residential parkway, Piedmont Way, a national resource and state of California landmark. With support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Association for Olmsted Parks, the City of Berkeley, PGAdesign, Inc., the UCB Chancellor's Community Partnership Fund, Cal Alumnae/i, the Inter-fraternity Council and the community at large, we have developed a replanting plan for the historic parkway.

After five years of research and intensive planning we now have a �shovel ready project’! The PGAdesign, Inc. team led by Cathy Garrett, assisted by James Stockham and UC Berkeley intern Kirsten Johnson have achieved a marvelous final plan that conforms to current day transportation needs while respecting historic standards of restoration and rehabilitation. The final contract design documents were delivered to the City of Berkeley and the Friends of Piedmont Way on April 7, 2009.

We are currently raising funds to build on our $75,000 award from UC Berkeley's Community Partnership Fund in order to begin replanting the historic parkway.

"The symbolism and significance of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis." - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance