Eri Suzuki

Eri is an urbanist with a strong belief that collective design can be an agent of positive change in their ever-evolving society. While her projects at SITELAB range in scale from a stretch of sidewalk to a neighborhood, she embraces tackling complexities of designing public spaces and setting a stage for public life.

At SITELAB, Eri leads a multi-disciplinary planning process towards entitlement for largest projects such as Pier 70 Waterfront Redevelopment (28-acre mixed-use development at a formal historic shipyard) and San José Downtown West (80-acre transit-oriented development at Diridon Station). Other projects include more tactical urban design responses to critical issues today: helping LavaMaeˣ realize a Pop-up Care Village that mobilize the community to bring care services to the streets in San Francisco and re-examining the role of the public realm in downtown in the post-COVID recovery for Downtown SF Public Realm Action Plan.

Eri is a licensed architect (Texas) with Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University and Bachelors of Architecture with a minor in Landscape Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is a co-chair for the SPUR Planning and Architecture Council.