Client: Downtown retailer / property owner

Location: Mansfield, Ohio

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Daniel DeGreve was hired to provide conceptual design services for a proposed mixed-use commercial development on vacant lots straddling both sides of South Main Street next to the town square. The owner/client wanted the design to evoke the Georgian town center architecture of Bath, England to attract high-end retail tenants with markets complementary to his.

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The resulting building elevation design concept represents over 100,000 square feet of proposed commercial retail and office space distributed across five separate buildings with linked second stories. Daniel proposed a multistory parking garage with street-facing commercial tenant space on the site of an existing surface parking lot not owned by the client to illustrate how neighboring property owners could collaborate to replace the 'missing teeth' of the downtown business district with structured parking.  The garage is shown ghosted in the renderings because it was not requested by any party.

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