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Home My WebLink AboutGVFC1 - DMC Properties TAG Grant Application 10-2015 N ialfr,tinl* 1e.tii Ilalyrin • CARPEI- NORTH SEVENTH URBAN RENEWAL DISTRICT I REDEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM 1 NNOY iA ' SALE Technical Assistance Grant Application ARP�T September 2015 APPLICANT: Gallatin Valley Furniture Carpet One 16J BECHTLE Y■ARCHITECTS Commesclal.Residential,6 Planning CERTIFICATION Project Address: 923 North 7tn I (we) certify that all of the statements and estimates within this Application as well as all documentation submitted as attachments to this Application or under separate cover are true and correct to the best of my (our) knowledge and belief. Date: September 22, 2015 Applicant: an Cattin Architect: Scott Bechtle, AIA ■BECHTLE ■ARCHITECTS Page 1 IMBECHTLE ■ARCHITF_.CTS Page 2 Project Description Gallatin Valley Furniture Carpet One Since 1946 our family business has been helping our customers with their home furnishings and flooring needs. Our building is located on 923 North 7t1 Street on the west side of this key entry to Bozeman. We think that our project is an ideal candidate for the North 7th Urban Renewal District Commercial Rehabilitation Incentives Program because we are proposing the rehabilitation of our street frontage. We hope you too will agree how fitting this project is to the goals of this program. Since the property has been developed and operated by our family business for almost 70 years, there have been changes to the surrounding properties and to the City planning goals for the location. Our proposed rehabilitation will be consistent with the future goals of our business and with the City of Bozeman's planning documents currently directing the future direction for the community. Those documents are listed below. • Design and Connectivity Plan for the North Seventh Avenue Corridor (DCPNS) • Bozeman Design Objectives Plan (BDOP) • Title 18 of the Bozeman Municipal Code (UDO) • Bozeman Community Plan (BCP) Please review our narrative later in the application for specifics of how our rehabilitation will be consistent with these documents. Project Scope The Technical Assistance Grant would specifically explore the following scope to move our rehabilitation project forward. • Conceptual Design and Master Site Planning o Site planning for the removal of the northeast corner pylon sign and replacement with a compliant monument sign located along North 711 at a location complimentary to the building fagade entries and signage. o Conceptual design of the monument sign to be consistent with our future storefront rehabilitation. o Concept landscape approach along the North 7th Avenue and Juniper Street frontage as the areas are viewed from community traveling or walking along North 7th. • Conceptual Building Fagade Design o Design options to rehabilitate the existing building fagade and update the look of the building along North 71h Avenue. I BECHTLE ■ARCHITECTS CTS Page 3 . o Investigate ways to encourage pedestrian-oriented activity and to create a quality experience for people on foot and bicycle traveling across our property frontage. o Investigate building entries and product display as it relates to pedestrian connectivity to North 7'Avenue and Juniper Street directly visible to North 71h Avenue. o Investigate building signage opportunities consistent with current signage guidelines. o Investigate design opportunities to express the long term commitment to the community that Gallatin Valley Furniture Carpet 1 has and will continue to make for the next 70 years. This may be achieved through a strong expression of traditional building forms with a contemporary style utilizing the permanence of natural materials like brick, glass, and steel. • Submittal for informal review to the Bozeman Planning Department • Preliminary Cost Estimating • Phasing Planning Grant Request The Owner requests the full amount ($7,200) be applied to this project. The Owner is also interested in exploring additional future funding for facade/site improvements. Design Objectives Established for Our Project Design and Connectivity Plan for the North Seventh Avenue Corridor • Expand landscape and enhance the quality of the pedestrian experience along North 7th Avenue frontage. • Minimize visual clutter along the North 7th corridor. • Accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists. • Establish open space that encourages public interaction between the street and our building. • Provide a stronger relationship between the building and the street through a stronger entry presence on both North 7th Avenue and the east portion of the Juniper Street frontage. • Master Plan for the eventual connection of Juniper to 81h Street and transformation to compliant parallel parking along that frontage as it relates to visibility from North 7th Avenue corridor. • Create a building design that adds interest as seen from the road and while establishing a design compatible with the local Bozeman character. ■BECHTLE ■AROTTF,CTS Page 4 • Create a building design that has a feeling of more than one story that helps define the commercial edge of the entryway corridor. Bozeman Design Objectives Plan • Include a green, landscape open space along the highway and then an edge of buildings defining the inside edge of the green space. • Present a fagade to the public walk which is visually interesting. Include display windows, storefront, public art and other decorative features that provide interest and establish a sense of human scale. • Improve the entrances to the buildings for pedestrians and encourage the building fagade to be closer to the required setback rather than set back from the 7th corridor. • Parking should be primarily located to the interior of the property. • Encourage patios and other outdoor uses along the sidewalk. • Buildings should reflect the regional urban character. Innovative new designs that draw upon regional design traditions are preferred. • The primary entrance to the building should be oriented to the street, major sidewalk, or plaza. Provide a sheltering element such a canopy or awning to signify the primary entrance. Where more than one user shares a structure, each individual entrance should be identified. • Consider using a double fronted entry design that provides a door to the street and another to the parking lot. • Divide the building into modules that express dimensions of structure seen traditionally. In general the primary fagade should not exceed 100 ft in length. Provide a jog in the fagade to divide it into subordinate elements if over 100 ft. • Change the material or color with each building module to reduce the perceived mass. • Change the height of the wall plane at each building module. • Change the arrangement of windows and other fagade articulation features to divide the larger wall planes into smaller modules. • Express fagade components in ways that help establish human scale. Establish a pattern or rhythm with windows, columns or other architectural features. Recess features and articulate headers, sills and mullions. • The primary entrance shall have a human scale. Provide a one story element at the building entrance to help establish a more human sense of scale. • Use belt courses or horizontal bands to articulate floor levels and structure. • Use brick in a standard module to express a human scale. Avoid using larger surfaces of panelized products or featureless materials. Avoid large surfaces of stucco or similar materials. I■BECHTLE ■ARCHITECTS Page 5 • All roof forms should have no less than two of the following features: flat roof with parapet, cornice or molding to define parapet top, overhanging eaves, sloping roofs with min 6:12 roof pitch, multiple roof planes. • Use traditional materials for all primary wall surfaces including brick, stone, and wood. Materials such as metal may be acceptable upon review from the design review authority. Avoid shiny high gloss materials. • Use material colors that blend with the natural setting like muted colors and earth tones. Bright colors should only be used as accents. • Minimize visual impacts of utilities and mechanical equipment. • Site signs should convey information while remaining subordinate to the site and surrounding area. Sign materials and design should be compatible with the building on the site. • A simple sign design is preferred. Changeable copy reader boards are discouraged. • Position building mounted signs to be part of the overall composition. The sign should be integrated into the design rather than overpowering the architectural features of the building. • Awnings compatible with the material and construction style of the building is encourages. Firm Experience Gallatin Valley Furniture Carpet One would like to retain Bechtle Architects to lead the consulting efforts for this important project for North 7th Avenue. Bechtle Architects specializes in professional planning and architectural design for commercial and residential projects. Bechtle Architects has been established in Bozeman for over 10 years and understands the importance of integrating a building into its context while maintaining the individual character inherent to each of its unique Owners and uses. The character of a community is in the diversity of its individual parts as well as the common character of its cohesive whole. We feel Bechtle Architects has the experience and understanding to provide a design for our property that can express our individual family business character in a way that is sensitive to the future growth goals for the community. As a registered Montana architect since 1991, and a practicing planner, Scott Bechtle has a passion for integrating buildings into interesting and dynamic pedestrian-focused places. Scott has been involved in the master planning and design guidelines development of communities like Big Sky Town Center, several ski resorts, and most recently a 280+ unit subdivision in Bozeman - Flanders Mill. He believes that good architecture is not solely about the buildings but equally important are the spaces INBECHTLE ■ARCHTTF .............� ,,,u, ,.,,��,CTS Page 6 defined by the building. The sequence of entry to the building and the pedestrian experience can be artfully sculpted utilizing light, color, and texture. Scott has called Bozeman home since 1985 when he attended his senior year of high school and then went on to study his life-long love of architecture at Montana State University in Bozeman. He has a Masters of Architecture degree from Montana State University. Scott has resided in Bozeman the past 14 years as a Bozeman business owner and plans to remain as a participating member of the community for many years to come. Bechtle Architects employs seven employees of which five are licensed architects each with twelve +years of experience. His firm has adequate bench depth to handle this project easily in the next few months. Scott understands the design objectives and goals for entryway corridor architecture and served on the Bozeman Design Review Committee for three years to help guide prospective applicants in submitting appropriate designs for entryway corridors. He understands how to creatively implement those design objectives into an appropriate design for our project. We believe technical assistance grant would be well utilized to assist DMC properties/ Gallatin Valley Furniture Carpet One to develop Conceptual design improvements the property to address the sign removal/relocation as well as enhancements to the facade/site. Following are some exhibits to help communicate our existing building and site. I yy �+ S ,AU Y View from N 7th Avenue south bound lane,Juniper Street view. ■BECHTLE ■ARCHITECTS Cor...nm..I.. �J .mtR�le�"'�"� Page 7 i East Elevation View from N 7th Avenue. 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Architect in Training.................................$55/hr. Administrative Assistant..........................$45/hr. Proposed work includes site planning, monument sign design, concept landscape design, concept building fagade design, preliminary cost estimating, phasing planning, and submittal to the City of Bozeman for informal review. I will discount hourly rate for my services being applied to the NSURD grant to a maximum hourly rate of $90/hr. We will work hourly to a$7,200 limit for this conceptual phase of design services. Once we have reached this limit,we can discuss if you would like to proceed on an hourly basis or move forward with a lump sum contract for the next phase of services. Thank you for the opportunity. Sincerely, BECHTLE ARCHITECTS Scott Bechtle cc: File—GVFC1 Exterior Rehabilitation 3825 Valley Commons Drive#3,Bozeman Montana 59718 P:406.585.4161 F:406.585,6919 www.bechdearchitects.com scottb(ct�.bechtlearchitects.com V VAN BRYAN STUDIO ARCHITECTS Dennis Cattin DMC Properties PO Box 1407 Bozeman, MT 59771-1407 RE: Gallatin Valley Furniture Carpet One Signage Replacement/Facade Rehabilitation Dennis, Per your request, I am providing this hourly proposal for design services for the above referenced project. To provide concept design and master site planning for your North 7 h facility, we propose to do this work hourly at our standard hourly rates. My time is billed at$125/hour. Proposed work includes site planning,monument sign design, concept landscape design, concept building fagade design,preliminary cost estimating,phasing planning, and submittal to the City of Bozeman for informal review. Thank you for the opportunity. Van Bryan 21 West Babcock Street I Bozeman, Montana 59715 1 T:406.586.4777 I F:406.586.4778