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.
Price Chopper, a full-service supermarket group serving the northeastern United States, is a subsidiary of Golub Corporation. The full service 50,000 square foot grocery facilities offer meat and seafood, deli, scratch bakery, coffee cafe, and a florist. CASCO has designed two sustainable ground-up projects in Lenox, MA and Marshalls Creek, PA, constructed to “LEED Silver.”
Over a three-year period, CASCO teamed with Safeway to design and engineer their “Lifestyle” concept throughout 25 locations in northern California and Nevada. The project scope included extensive remodeling and, in some cases, the addition of new square footage to the existing building. Safeway projects involved service meat and seafood, service deli, scratch bakeries, pharmacies, bank lease spaces, and Starbucks’ kiosks.
Building Information Modeling was utilized to capture fixture data within the Fixture Plan. The information was shared with Safeway’s store planning, construction, and procurement department.
Safeway’s Dominick’s Finer Foods division utilized CASCO’s services to assist with the Chicago market “Lifestyle” program. In addition to store design efforts, CASCO supported Dominick’s as a peer review consultant to identify value engineering opportunities at several stores with heating and cooling issues. Dominick’s also utilized our services to review and analyze compliance of all Dominick’s stores regarding local, state, and federal accessibility requirements.
CASCO assisted Dollar Tree, a long time client, with the prototype development of their new Grocery Market concept in 2009. At 23,000+ square feet, Dollar Tree Market is approximately twice the size of a typical Dollar Tree store. The first Market opened in March of 2010 near their headquarters in Chesapeake, VA. Our engineers also incorporate freezers & coolers into an average of 100 Dollar Tree stores per year.
CASCO provided professional design services for 45 full-service supermarkets for Kroger throughout the Midwest, including ground-ups, expansions, and renovations.
Our team is working on a ground-up development of a 77,000 SF Dierbergs supermarket with 18,000 SF of adjoining retail/restaurant developments. This development also includes off-site road improvements and signalizations. Our team will also be installing electric vehicle charging stations in this new development parking lot. As well as, working with the client to do remodels.
An exciting 50,000 square feet remodel of an existing building CASCO designed 20 years ago for Toys R Us. Primary tenant will be Fresh International Market, who is expanding from Illinois into the Texas market with their 8th store. Fresh International Market is an authentic Asian grocery store with several departments including seafood with live tanks, meat/deli counter, hot food to go with seating area and beer/wine sales. CASCO transformed the concept plan into reality and is currently finalizing drawings for City of Austin review. Additional tenants include a Hot Pot restaurant, Japanese Barbeque restaurant, Ice Cream/Bubble Tea space , Paris Baguette franchise space, cosmetic store and liquor store. Each sub-tenant will have their own exterior entrances but will also have interior access from the grocery store.