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Tag Archive for ‘Community Center’

The Place in Evergreen is Open!

The Place, a center for community organizations in Evergreen, Colorado is now complete and open! All painting and trimming has been completed and the office spaces are beginning to be filled by local non-profit organizations such as The Mountain Area Pregnancy Center, The Mother’s Closet and more. While the offices are complete, the state-of-the-art tele-conferencing [...]

“The Place” Community Center is a Month From Opening

I recently toured “The Place”, a community center TI project that we designed last Winter. The sheetrock is hung and they have slated their grand opening for next month. While there is much to do, Owner, Brett Edwards, has indicated that people from near and far have lent a hand to see this vision through [...]

Holly Park Community Center Interior

I recently had a chance to tour the interior of the Holly Park Community Center. We completed this project at an affordable housing complex in Commerce City for Mercy Housing. One of the building’s functions is a replacement for the old management office. This space serves as the new waiting room. The community room provides [...]

Construction Cost Per Square Foot for Recreation Facilities

We offer full scope design and engineering services for various types of Recreation Facilities, and a common question we typically get in the beginning of any project is: How much does it cost to build a Recreation Center? There is a wide range of definitions for a recreation center and the functions that occur inside. As a result, this [...]

The Cafe at The Place in Evergreen to Open Next Week!

While construction continues next door at “The Place” on Meadow Drive in Evergreen, the “Cafe @ The Place” may open as early as next week! EVstudio completed the plans for both spaces. The building, which previously housed The Carpet Exchange,  has been designed to be an important hub for the non-profit organizations of the mountain [...]

“The Place” Community Center getting Underway

This story, Reprinted in its entirety from the Canyon Courier this week, is all about “The Place”, a project we had the privilege to be involved with: *** The Place to be: Former Carpet Exchange building to host businesses, coffee shop, nonprofits By Deb Hurley Brobst The Place is going to be about miracles. That’s the [...]

64 Acre Master Planning Church Project Underway

EV Studio has recently been hired by the Christian House of Prayer to provide master site planning services at their 64 acre site in Killeen, Texas.  The site is currently home to “The Cathedral of Central Texas”. The cathedral will continue to be the focus of the site and act as the cornerstone of the [...]

Construction Cost per Square Foot of Community Centers in Major US Cities

In a continued effort to offer timely information on construction cost for a variety of building types (see also cost of commercial construction per square foot and  Cost Per Square Foot of Educational Facilities),  I did some research on another project type that we frequently design: Community Centers.  This is a unique project type that is often realized by local [...]

Holly Park Community Center in Commerce City

The Holly Park Community Center in Commerce City is a community facility for the resident’s of an affordable housing complex. Like many apartment complexes built in the 1970′s it did not have any common area facilities. Mercy Housing Colorado (the owner) wanted to provide their residents with access to after school programs, computer training, food [...]

Holly Park Community Center South Side with Brick Installed

The masons have finished the brick work on the Holly Park Community Center. Next up they’ll paint the siding pieces. The interesting thing about the colors on the building is that won’t immediately match the other buildings. Instead this building will be the basis for the other buildings when they are painted and reroofed in [...]

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