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This year SEM Architects was honored to have designed not one but two projects that won Gold Hard Hat Awards for Colorado Construction’s Best Colorado Projects of 2009. The Streets at SouthGlenn also won the City of Centenial’s Best of 2009 – Retail Project of the Year award.
We are proud of this achievement and grateful to be a part of two very talented Development/Design/Construction teams.
The Streets at SouthGlenn
Best of Centennial 2009 – Retail Project of the Year
Outstanding Retail Project – Gold Hard Hat
Outstanding Project Management – Silver Hard Hat
The Streets at SouthGlenn is the redevelopment of the existing SouthGlenn Mall into a mixed-use Community Center for the City of Centennial.
The redevelopment plan develops a 2,500,000 square foot Town Center between the existing Macy’s and Sears stores, and expands the on-site development to the perimeter of the property to include additional retail shops, restaurants, banks and services. The center is vertically mixed street level retail shops, and either residential units or office space above.
SEM Architects is the Executive Architect for the overall project and is responsible for entitlements, site planning, architectural design, tenant coordination, contract administration and design oversight and coordination.
The Streets at SouthGlenn blends premier local and national retailers with bold new brands to provide an exceptional, exclusive shopping experience and convenient access to the amenities shoppers seek in one place. Adjacent to south Denver’s premier neighborhoods, the Denver Tech Center, and other prosperous and growing residential and professional communities.
CornerStar
Outstanding Retail Project – Silver Hard Hat
CornerStar is a regional power center located on 158 acres at one of the busiest intersections in the Denver metropolitan area. The overall project contemplates more than 615,000 square feet of retail space with two distinctly different experiences. The project offers a wide range of services and goods in a large-scale development while also providing a unique, upscale village component that creates an inviting place for people to gather, shop, dine and enjoy the Colorado lifestyle.
The power center portion of the project provides opportunities for large format users, while the village creates a unique urban environment that encompasses small retail shop space and restaurant users.
The design of CornerStar is that of a uniquely contemporary blend of materials, forms and interstitial spaces. The buildings use a varied palette of materials in a variety of colors and patterns to create a high level of interest and design aesthetic, while the masses provide individual tenants with a strong sense of identity for their individual spaces. The organization of the buildings creates great opportunity for usable outdoor spaces that are either utilized as patio spaces for restaurants or lavish landscape areas to soften the overall project.
These awards remind us of our recent successful projects and the strength of our clients and the design teams we have coordinated.