An Urban and Regional Planning, Grants Management, Recovery, and Strategic Implementation Company
What We Do
Desire Line is a well-rounded and action-oriented planning company in the Gulf South. We provide comprehensive planning, grants, emergency, watershed, environmental, and floodplain management services in response to critical challenges of our time, including strategic innovation, balance and adaption within the built and natural environment; and reducing exposure to hazards to enable a high quality of life for generations to come. The Company offers a one-of-a-kind, thoughtful, strategic approach that balances technical analysis, best practices, first-hand experience, and institutional knowledge with effective community engagement and co-developed, creative solutions. Work products result in increased government efficiency and issue-oriented actions that adapt and respond to current and future community needs.
Outreach and Engagement
Plans and Mapping
Code Writing
Grants
Innovation
Recovery
Experience
The Desire Line Team has more than 70 years of collective professional experience and includes award-winning certified urban planners, grant managers, community engagement specialists, and floodplain managers. Together, we consistently deliver high quality planning products and provide expert advice with a seasoned and tempered understanding. The team is talented, trustworthy, responsive, and deliberate in its decision-making, while also being socially aware, adept, and non-intrusive. Our history of work and long-lasting relationships with communities and partners demonstrates a unique, collaborative, and specialized skillset that is urgently needed today to advance community goals and resolve long-standing challenges.
Company Information
Over the last 15 years, Founder and CEO, Alex Carter, has demonstrated her capability to not only perform in the private and public sectors, but—more importantly—to translate the Team’s decades of public service experience into much-needed and immediately impactful support for communities.
Desire Line is a 100 percent Louisiana, woman-owned and operated limited liability company located in Metairie, Louisiana. It is recognized by the Louisiana Economic Development (LED) Commission as both a Certified-Active Small Entrepreneurship and a Small and Emerging Business Enterprise; and is certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise as part of the Louisiana Unified Certification Program.