Colorado Architecture for Makers, Hospitality & Experiences

OPA Design Studio is a licensed architecture firm serving clients throughout Colorado. We design destination driven spaces for makers, hospitality brands, and experience focused businesses, including breweries, distilleries, wineries, restaurants, recreation, and commercial spaces.

From new construction and adaptive reuse to renovations and expansions, our team brings together architecture, technical expertise, and an understanding of how people experience a place. We help ambitious concepts become spaces that work operationally, connect with their communities, and give people a reason to come back.

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Architecture Services in Colorado

OPA Design Studio works with makers, hospitality brands, developers, and experience driven businesses throughout Colorado. Our architecture services support new destinations, existing spaces, expansions, and adaptive reuse projects from early ideas through construction.

Breweries & Taprooms

Architecture for breweries, taprooms, production facilities, expansions, and destination driven craft beverage spaces.

Distilleries & Wineries

Architecture for distilleries, wineries, tasting rooms, and production spaces that bring craft, hospitality, and the guest experience together.

Restaurants & Hospitality

Architecture for restaurants, bars, food halls, and hospitality concepts designed around operations, atmosphere, and the way people experience a place.

Recreation & Entertainment

Architecture for recreation, entertainment, and destination driven businesses designed to bring people together and keep them coming back.

Commercial Architecture

Architecture for new construction, tenant improvements, renovations, and commercial spaces built around the needs of the business and the people who use them.

Adaptive Reuse & Expansion

Architecture for renovations, additions, expansions, and adaptive reuse projects that give existing buildings new purpose and new possibilities.

Grain Hub + Dry Land Distillers | Longmont, Colorado

Turning an Existing Longmont Industrial Building into a New Kind of Maker Destination

OPA Design Studio is working with Slow Provisions and Dry Land Distillers on the Grain Hub, the adaptive reuse of an approximately 8,800 square foot industrial building in Longmont, Colorado. The project brings production, hospitality and gathering spaces together under one roof, with Dry Land Distillers expanding its production capacity as a key operator within the development. 

The program goes well beyond a traditional tasting room. Plans bring together distilling and malt production with a tasting room and bar, indoor and outdoor gathering areas, a teaching and demonstration kitchen, office space and the operational infrastructure necessary to support the businesses within the building. 

OPA’s involvement began with feasibility, programming and analysis of the existing building, site conditions, zoning requirements and operational needs. As the project moved forward, OPA’s role expanded to Architect of Record and design lead, carrying the project through architectural planning, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, permitting coordination and construction phase services. 

The Grain Hub represents the kind of work at the heart of OPA’s Colorado architecture practice: taking an existing building with its own constraints and character and transforming it into a place where making, hospitality and community can coexist. Production flow, equipment, accessibility, code requirements and the guest experience are considered together rather than as separate pieces of the project.

Experience We Bring to Colorado

Selected OPA projects that demonstrate the hospitality, production, and experiential design experience we bring to projects throughout Colorado.

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Dry Land Distillers

Longmont, CO

OPA Design Studio provided architecture and design services for Dry Land Distillers in Longmont, Colorado, creating a craft distillery and tasting room that integrates production, operations, and the customer experience. The project reflects OPA’s experience designing breweries, distilleries, tasting rooms, and hospitality spaces throughout Colorado.

Meanwhile Brewing

Austin, TX

Meanwhile Brewing brings together craft beer, food, outdoor gathering, and entertainment in a destination built for Austin. OPA Design Studio’s work on the project demonstrates our experience in Austin brewery architecture, taproom design, and hospitality spaces that balance brewery operations with the social experience that makes a place worth returning to.

Bottom Creek

North Branch, Michigan

Bottom Creek is more than a brewery. It is a destination designed around craft beer, food, entertainment, recreation, and gathering, with expansive indoor and outdoor spaces that give guests plenty of reasons to stay and explore. OPA Design Studio brought its experience in brewery architecture, hospitality, and destination design to create a place where production and operations work alongside a much larger guest experience. The project demonstrates OPA’s ability to design Michigan brewery and hospitality destinations that turn a craft beverage business into a place people can spend an afternoon, an evening, or make part of the reason for the trip.

Pinthouse Pizza

Round Rock, TX

Pinthouse Round Rock represents the continued growth of a longstanding OPA client relationship. Building on our work with Pinthouse across multiple locations, OPA helps growing brewery and hospitality brands translate an established identity into new spaces and markets. Our work supports businesses as they scale, combining brewery architecture, operational needs, and guest experience while maintaining the character that made the original concept successful.