HOMESTEAD PLAZA

A 47,000 square foot vacant grocery store turned into 3 commercial spaces

Jackson, Wyoming  •  47,000 sq. ft.

Design Team: Chris Moulder, AIA; Brian Tarantola, Matt Miller

As an exercise in adaptive reuse, DMA converted a 47,000 square foot vacant grocery store into commercial spaces for two national tenants and a local sporting goods retailer. The building, while at a prime location of a five-way intersection in downtown Jackson, Wyoming, had been vacant since the prior tenant, a national grocery store chain, had built a new store in west Jackson.

DMA took this vacant building with an uninteresting facade and gave it a recognizable face lift with three distinct entries leading to the three leasable spaces. Due to a deep “covered porch” on the street elevation, and no windows, aside than the glass on doors, the principal frontage of the building was dark and forbidding. The design solution opened the north-facing facade with large areas of glazing and elevated canopies at each of the tenant entries. This reinforced the individual identities of each store, while offering a more welcoming prospect to the shopping public. Large windows, an articulated external sheathing of clear and bright Finnish birch, exposed fasteners and glue-laminated lumber create visual interest and radiate the warmth of natural materials in a natural setting.