Throughout our company’s history, grocery and supermarket design has been an important part of overall architectural and engineering design services provided on a national scale. Leaders in the industry have partnered with CASCO at various stages of their store programs and growth patterns. Our team has assisted discount, warehouse, and full-service grocery providers with design development, site analysis, and due diligence for both ground up and major renovations.
In 2019, our team was contacted to support their aggressive national store expansion program involving multiple ground-up facilities.
Since then, our project managers, architecture, and engineering staff have provided complete project life cycle services for 50+ projects.
Expansion into new markets with different climates and jurisdictional requirements provides opportunities for our multi-discipline team to reduce BJ’s construction costs and building design/construction schedules.
Our team developed a new exterior concept, interior design, and construction documents for a St. Louis-based grocer and real estate developer, Dierbergs Markets. We provided services for city planning, permitting, MSD approvals, LOD packages for tenant lease spaces, construction documents, and construction administration. In addition to the building, we have completed two new developments: Dierbergs Market grocery store, flanked by several smaller tenant spaces and two additional tenant outlot buildings.
We worked with tenant lease packages, preparing white box construction documents and additional outlot building designs coordinating with tenant requirements.
We have also designed and provided construction documents for remodels of several of their existing properties, incorporating some of the latest store concepts into existing stores and several of the tenant spaces within their properties.
Our team collaborated with Lotte’s refrigeration team to integrate the coolers/freezers and equipment into the existing space. With coordination, we paid extra attention to the mechanical ductwork/and refrigeration piping so that it had a minimal visual impact on the open ceiling sales area.
Over three years, our team designed and engineered their “Lifestyle” concept throughout 25 locations in northern California and Nevada. The project included extensive remodeling and – in some cases – the addition of new add-ons to the existing buildings.
Dominick’s Finer Foods division collaborated with our team to assist with the implementation of a new store concept in the Chicago market. In addition, we supported Dominick’s as a peer review consultant to identify value engineering opportunities to assess heating and cooling issues as well as analyze compliance with local, state, and federal accessibility requirements.