Ultimately, the bank with which the company has a long-term relationship, Zions Bank, offered the best terms (though PACE financing was not a part of that package). Several financing companies were approached and multiple financing options were considered including PACE options. While due consideration for this condition was given in terms of budget, it was the financing and appraisal process that took the company by surprise. The deeply integrated nature of this project challenged this simplified approach to defining roles, but ultimately it was an essential division-of-labor.Īt the commencement of the project, it was understood that a Living Building, served by onsite power, water, and sewer treatment equipment, would be significantly more expensive to develop than a LEED Platinum building. This meant that some of the Arch Nexus participants were placed on the Owner side of the equation and others on the Architect side. Construction commenced in March of 2016 and the company took occupancy of the building on the last business day of the year, Friday, December 30th.īecause Architectural Nexus has developed projects for themselves in the past they knew how important it was to observe the standard three-part team structure of Owner/Architect/Contractor. Permitting was a protracted process due to a number of LBC related issues.
By October Design Development was complete and the permit set for the project was submitted in December, just seven months after the project was conceived. On July 10th those ideas were tested in a day-long Biophilia Workshop, and then on July 17th, the project was formally registered. On July 6th the Team traveled to the Bullitt Center to evaluate LBC certification. On June 1st the property was under contract and the Project Team was procured by the middle of that month.
Later that month, a property search was conducted. The project began on May 1, 2015, at a company retreat where consensus around the idea of regenerating an existing building was quickly established.
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The prior use of the warehouse/office was converted into a professional office for Architectural Nexus, Inc., an architectural firm with an integrated practice (planning, landscape architecture, interior design) reaching throughout the western United States and beyond. Arch | Nexus SAC is an adaptive reuse of an existing one-story structure, located at 930 R Street in Sacramento, California.