OPA Design Studio provides architectural services for hospitality, craft beverage, commercial, and experiential developments throughout Tennessee. From new construction and adaptive reuse to production expansions and multi-location growth, we help businesses create spaces that support their operations, strengthen their brand, and deliver memorable experiences.
OPA Design Studio is a Tennessee hospitality architect serving makers, hospitality brands, developers, and experience-driven businesses throughout the state. We design breweries, distilleries, restaurants, entertainment destinations, commercial spaces, and adaptive reuse projects around how people gather, make, explore, and experience them.
From Nashville’s growing hospitality and entertainment market to the craft beverage and destination opportunities in Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, and beyond, we bring specialized architectural experience to businesses creating places people want to visit. Our work combines thoughtful design with an understanding of production requirements, operational efficiency, brand identity, and the guest experience.
Based in Austin and licensed to provide architectural services in Tennessee, OPA has developed a portfolio of breweries, distilleries, restaurants, and experiential destinations for established and emerging brands. Our experience includes helping businesses open new locations, expand production, adapt existing buildings, and develop destinations that support long-term growth.
We work with clients from early feasibility and concept development through architectural design, permitting, construction documentation, and construction administration. Beyond the drawings, our longstanding industry relationships and practical knowledge help clients navigate the challenges of bringing a business to life.
Whether you’re planning your first location or expanding an established brand into Tennessee, OPA brings the experience, creativity, and technical understanding to help move your project forward.
Architecture for craft breweries, taprooms, production facilities, and brewery expansions. We integrate equipment requirements, production flow, hospitality, and guest experience into spaces built for the business behind the beer.
Specialized architectural planning for distilleries, whiskey production facilities, tasting rooms, and visitor experiences. Our work considers production infrastructure, safety, operational needs, and the opportunities for immersive brand experiences.
Restaurant architecture, commercial kitchen coordination, bars, and hospitality environments designed around efficient operations, memorable guest experiences, and the distinct identity of each business.
Architecture for recreation, entertainment, outdoor gathering spaces, and experiential developments that bring people together and create compelling reasons to visit, explore, and return.
Transforming existing buildings into productive, welcoming spaces through feasibility analysis, renovation, code coordination, and architectural design that responds to both the building and the business.
Helping established brands grow through new locations, increased production capacity, facility expansions, and architectural solutions that maintain brand identity while supporting evolving operational demands.
Every successful destination begins with a vision, but bringing that vision to life requires more than an attractive building. It takes an understanding of the business, its operational requirements, the people it serves, and the decisions that shape its future.
OPA Design Studio has worked with established and emerging hospitality and craft beverage brands across multiple markets, developing architectural solutions for breweries, distilleries, restaurants, and experience-driven destinations.
Our portfolio includes longstanding relationships with brands such as Pinthouse, along with projects for Meanwhile Brewing, Still Austin Whiskey Co., LeRoy and Lewis, and other operators whose spaces combine production, hospitality, and customer experience.
That work has given us firsthand experience with the challenges of launching new concepts, expanding production, adapting existing buildings, and growing successful businesses into additional locations.
For businesses developing projects in Tennessee, we bring that experience to the table from the beginning. Our role extends beyond architectural design to helping clients understand the process, anticipate challenges, coordinate specialized requirements, and identify resources that support their goals.
We’re bringing years of relevant industry experience to Tennessee — and we’re ready to help create what’s next.
Selected OPA projects that demonstrate the hospitality, production, and experiential design experience we bring to projects throughout Tennessee.
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 San Antonio marks the continued expansion of a successful Texas craft beer and hospitality brand into a new market. Building on OPA Design Studio’s work with Pinthouse across multiple locations, the project applies our experience in brewery architecture, restaurant design, production planning, and hospitality to support scalable growth while maintaining the identity and guest experience that define the Pinthouse brand.
Deadwords Brewing expanded OPA Design Studio’s brewery design experience into Florida, bringing our specialized knowledge of craft beverage production and hospitality architecture to Orlando. The project adds to OPA’s portfolio of brewery and taproom projects across multiple states and demonstrates our ability to support craft beverage businesses beyond our Texas roots.
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.
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