Commercial Spaces

Commercial spaces are where business, brand, and people come together. From restaurants and hospitality destinations to retail, entertainment, workplaces, and mixed use environments, we design spaces around how people actually move through them, work in them, gather in them, and experience them.

Our approach starts with understanding what the space needs to accomplish for the people who own it and the people who use it. We consider operations, circulation, code, site conditions, brand, and the overall experience together, creating places that work well behind the scenes while giving people a reason to come in, stay awhile, and come back.

Designing the Business and the Experience

A successful commercial space has to do more than look good. It needs to support the way the business operates, make sense for the site and building, meet code and permitting requirements, and create an experience that feels intentional from the moment someone arrives.

OPA brings planning, architecture, operational thinking, and visualization together early in the process. We look at how guests, employees, products, services, and operations move through a space so design decisions support both the day to day realities of the business and the experience it wants to create.

Project management focus on budget, schedule, quality, and owner’s unique project approach

Code awareness to focus design efforts on realizable opportunities

Exposure to wide range of market types to maximize mixed use and diverse programs

OLATHE HILTON GARDEN INN - CENTRAL TEXAS EQUIPMENT - MERRILL LYNCH OFFICES - STAR CHARTER SCHOOL - THE ROOF BAR (LUBBOCK, TX) - Q19 RETAIL - WESTLAKE TOWNHOMES - TEXAS STATE DELTA GAMMA SORORITY - 2000 EAST 6TH - STAR SMILES - WESTLAKE OFFICES - BROHN HOMES OFFICES - TASTEMADE - CG ARENA - THE WHIP IN - BLACKBOARD - GAS PEDAL - KIKI NASS - THE BEER PLANT - MAVERICKS BAR - CEDAR STREET BAR - WHIM HOSPITALITY