Challenge
The Town assumed ownership of a former 1950’s elementary school. It sought how to possibly re-use the building for multiple tenants, including a relocated Town Hall, as well as an expanded library, Historic Society museum, a community kitchen, and co-workspace.
Each option required different space lay-outs, and changed costs and revenues. Each option also had to consider the re-use of the existing buildings – historic but impractical town hall, seasonal library, and a limited-access museum.
The option of utilizing an acquired site and building a new multi-user building also needed to be considered. Due to the importance of the buildings, strong attachments to each, traditional town meeting format, all decisions and meetings were well attended and required detailed analysis and explanations by the ADG team members.
ADG Solution
A team of architects, cost estimaters and real estate market analysist forst provided need base information – including code and energy updates – then presented to several public sessions to give and get feedback.