Christopher O'Hare

Christopher O'Hare is an American artist, sculptor, inventor, and landscape architect based in South Florida. He is the founder of both Pineapple Grove Designs—a producer of ornamental art for architecture —and Reef Cells—a company that designs and deploys artificial, eco-friendly reef structures (some of which memorialize deceased people). In 1986, O'Hare was a member of the Old School Square Committee and the Beautification Trust Committee for the city of Delray Beach, Florida. The committee was tasked with revitalizing and redeveloping certain sections of the town. In June 1986, he resigned from his post as chairman of the Beautification Committee to focus more on his business. O'Hare continued proposing revitalization developments even after his resignation from the committee.

In 1989, O'Hare founded Pineapple Grove Designs in his garage in Delray Beach. The company now occupies a 50,000 sq ft facility in Boynton Beach, Florida. The company produces numerous stone-sculpted architectural ornamental products.

In 1996, O'Hare resided in Ocean Ridge, Florida and was elected to the Town Commission. He served on the commission for two years, overseeing projects like the planting of 40,000 plants on beach dunes in the town and the hiring of a new Town Manager. He also donated decorative stone panels for a landscaping project in the city. O'Hare returned to full-time private business when his term expired.

Patents Method for assembling artificial reef modular units, filed January 24, 2002; issued July 24, 2003 Memorialization of human cremain in artificial reef, filed March 15, 1999; issued February 20, 2001 Aquatic organism habitat device, filed June 7, 1995; issued September 23, 1997