Vilican Leman was founded in 1954 by George Vilican, Jr. and Charles F. Leman. Since its inception, the firm prepared community plans, specialized planning analysis, landscape architecture, and urban design for more than 300 communities including, cities, villages, townships, counties, and regions. Services to hundreds of private clients in all areas of planning, site selection, feasibility analysis and site design have been carried out during this time. The range of professional services offered by Vilican Leman includes comprehensive community planning, specialized planning studies, urban design and landscape architectural services, historic preservation, market analysis, site selection, and site planning studies for both private and governmental clients.

The firm of Vilican Leman is dedicated to the effectuation of programs based on sound overall planning in both the public and private sectors. Our goal is to provide comprehensive, cost effective, professional services tailored to the needs of each client.

The firm's staff is composed of qualified professionals in the fields of community planning, landscape architecture, urban design, market analysis, historic preservation, natural resource based planning, community facilitation, and geographic information services.

In 2003 Vilican Leman became a wholly owned subsidiary of Beckett & Raeder, Inc. which gives our clients value added services in municipal engineering, landscape architecture, downtown revitalization, corridor planning and design, strategic planning, transportation planning, greenways and trail development, and institutional master planning and implementation.