Retrofit Turns Grocery Store into a College Campus
The retrofit market is filled with opportunity for the building owners who are willing to reinvest in structures. Antelope Valley College focused on its future with a retrofit project that created the Palmdale Center in Palmdale, Calif. With the project, the college now has a self-contained satellite campus that once was an existing grocery store with an attached medical office building. Dri-Design Tapered Series wall panels were selected to set the campus apart from the surrounding buildings.
“Dri-Design clear anodized aluminum wall panels were chosen for the main facade because they project a contemporary image that contrasts with the existing surrounding buildings,” says Steve Dowty, retired principal with KBZ Architects Inc., Santa Barbara, Calif. “The diffused reflectivity of the material, varying panel depth and angled orientations produce an identifiable presence from the main street entrance to the center, which are hundreds of feet apart.”