Architecture Design; Projects - Bar & Restaurant
Determine Design met the prospective property owner through the general contractor and the mechanical and electrical engineering firm. At the time the site was being used by a retail outlet for children equipment and a small tech shop. Before this it had been used as a Denny’s. The owner wished to return the use to that of a restaurant and to locate his old restaurant ‘Haru’ into the building. The other ‘Haru’ Sushi restaurant had burned down recently on Dimond and, thus, he wanted to find a new location for the restaurant which he proposed to call ‘Re-Haru’.
Change of Use Issues
The client wished to completely strip the old finishes and most of the interior walls and to build a new kitchen and seating area. The building had been previously used as a restaurant, but, because during the intervening years it had been used for retail, it lost grandfather rights for the site. The parking and landscaping plan had to be done as though it was a new facility.
Open for Business
Determine Design created a new site plan for the facility which managed to fit just enough parking on the site for the restaurant use and included all the necessary landscaping and pedestrian amenities that are required under current Municipal code.