WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA
Successful but aging neighborhood
shopping center gets a new look.
- 500 linear feet of storefront
- Completed March 2006
- $550,000 total cost
- Steel Engineering
- Tenants Open During Construction
- Pedestrain Safety
- Design integration with neighborhood
buildings
- Addition of landmark tower element
- Improved sight lines
- Greater tenant exposure
- ADA compliance
MXL Commercial Construction
2532 Santa Clara Avenue #10
Alameda, CA 94501
Email: info@mxlconstruction.com
Phone: 510-522-3400
Fax: 510-522-9400
Adjacent to the highly polished heart of downtown Walnut Creek, this 1950's-era shopping center was in need of a face-lift:
- façade & storefront renovations
- construction of a 48-foot tall
enclosed tower structure as a landmark
element
- 300 feet of custom-designed architectural
parking lot fencing
- modifications to existing plaza,
parking lot and sidewalks to accommodate
handicap accessibility
- paint, awnings, landscaping and architectural elements
The tower
construction was particularly challenging.
While three legs of the tower were
outside of the building footprint,
the fourth had to be supported by
the roof structure so as not to take
up valuable interior retail space.
The fourth leg required a matrix
of steel and glulam beams installed
above the ceiling to transfer the
weight to exterior walls.
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