Ramon Trias was raised in Barcelona and moved to South Florida while still in his teens. For 10 years, he was planning director for the city of Fort Pierce, but now runs his own consulting firm.
As a youngster growing up in Barcelona, Ramon Trias walked to school on 20-foot-wide sidewalks lined with trees, while his father took similar paths to work.
“I thought that was how the world was,” Trias says today. “Much to my surprise, when I came to Miami I found out that much of the world was an entirely different place.”
It still is a different place, and Trias is working every day to change it. For 10 years, he was the planning director for Fort Pierce, trying to change the image of that port city. Today, there are multi-million-dollar projects coming before the city commissioners, including a five-star resort on the Fort Pierce Inlet—something that would have been unheard-of 10 years ago. But Trias isn’t just limiting his design expertise to Fort Pierce. Since leaving his job with the city last fall, he has launched his own consulting firm, Trias & Associates, working with a number of clients across the country, including Vero Beach.
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