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exploration of mall redevelopment for entertainment use in Niagara Falls region.

Mall Redevelopment for Entertainment

AEC was retained by this regional mall owner to explore the mall’s redevelopment for entertainment use, in Niagara Falls (New York).  As the design consultant for the project, we considered all manner of repurposing options that could best utilize the existing physical configuration and infrastructure of the shopping center.

 

The starting point established by client Cocov Destinations, was to provide an all-weather “participatory sports” and recreation facility, serving league and sports club enthusiasts of all age groups.  One competitive advantage for the property was the substantial grounds at or about the former shopping center and the potential for using additional nearby land also owned by the developer.

 

Formerly operated as the Summit Mall, the newly-dubbed Niagara International Sports & Entertainment Center (“NISE Center”) transforms a derelict 850,000-square foot shopping mall into a world-class sports facility.   More than 900,000 annual visitors are estimated to participate in or view the athletic functions currently committed in the facility’s first years.  This estimate includes the athletes, coaches, friend s, families and other walk in event related (coaches, administrators etc.) traffic.  The attendance number is expected to increase as additional leagues and events are booked.

 

Confidential – At client request, the rapid-prototyping (previsualization) image for this exploration of mall redevelopment for entertainment use, includes limited details only.   Shown below, a view of the defunct mall prior to commencement of revitalization effort by Cocov Destinations.    Note – this is an update to a prior post.

 

 

Defunct regional shopping mall, slated for redevelopment.

Global Real Estate Consultants - project feasibility consultants

Cornell Gates Wellness District

Initial business plan conceptual work for planned wellness district in Markham (metropolitan Toronto), Canada.

 

Cornell Gates is a 20-acre master-planned mixed-use community to be developed in the rapidly growing Town of Markham in Greater Toronto. The project and Markham community are part of burgeoning urban growth underway in Greater Toronto, directly in the region’s direction of growth. The Toronto market has been largely unaffected by the world’s economic crisis, due to a local economy based on high-tech jobs growth and continued influx of new immigrants to Canada.

 

The project site enjoys excellent access to and from regional highway routes and public transit system, and just ten minutes from rail access to Downtown Toronto. The Cornell Gates community will be situated immediately adjacent to Markham Stouffville Hospital, a billion-dollar health care facility preparing to double its facilities by 2014 to serve local residents of more than 300,000.

 

Cornell Gates is part of an area Secondary Plan that sets the foundation for a major regional center at this location.

 

project experiential design consultants

Loveland Church New Campus

Cascade Events LLC, an affiliate of Loveland Church  |  At the time of its visioning, Ontario Arena is envisioned as “Southern California’s Premier Event Center,” a dedicated facility to be purpose-built to host sports events, concerts, meetings, social events, conventions, and private parties.  Integrating inspiring architecture and attractive landscaped grounds, the facility was expected to takes its place as one of the great places of the Inland Empire.

 

StoneCreek supported Cascade Events LLC in the ideation, planning, experiential design, construction costing, and overall business planning for a 140,000 sq.ft. inspirational events campus to be located in Ontario, California. The event complex would also serve as the home of Loveland Church, a major religious community based in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.  The events campus is conceived as a place for public gatherings, special events, and entertainment, as well as an inspirational setting suitable to host the Loveland ministry. The project’s design derives its inspiration from the natural properties of water and water’s biblical associations. The main auditorium, combining inspiration aspects of both cathedrals and great theaters, was dubbed the “catheatre.”

 

Cascade Pavilions will be located in the City of Ontario, California, providing a strategic setting within a community generally-acknowledged as the ?gateway? to the Inland Empire, and a location that is also in close proximity to the heart of the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Cascade Pavilions will be located within two miles of Ontario International Airport and within several blocks of Ontario Mills, the region?s predominate regional shopping and entertainment center.

 

Cascade Pavilions is a project of Cascade Events, LLC, a limited liability company (?Cascade Events?) sponsored by Loveland Church. Cascade Events will act as developer and operator of Cascade Pavilions, legally and operationally separated from Loveland Church. In addition, Loveland Church will act as a master tenant pursuant to an exclusive use agreement, to Cascade Pavilions, consolidating its various worship and inspirational activities at the facility. Loveland Church will occupy certain space dedicated to the congregation?s exclusive use, and with select rights to non-exclusive use of the overall event center facilities and proscribed facility purchase rights.

 

Cascade Pavilions, while thoroughly an inspirational location, will at the same time be a facility that will be adaptable and usable for general-purpose events, gatherings, as well as commercial entertainment, and recreation venues. In fact, the facility, as detailed in this Business Plan, will be a special event place with an extraordinary means of competing in the regional event marketplace, due to its soaring and inspirational design, and its flexible facilities plan.

 

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