Retail

Graphite’s knowledge and expertise delivers quality retail design. We understand retail. We know how to retrofit a space for a retailer, and we know how to optimize a mixed-use development to receive a retailer. We seek to align sustainable design practices with the right clients as they grow and pursue their own environmental goals in their services, stores, and operations.

Strength through Experience.

As a firm, we work with brands who have their own sustainability goals and have delivered stores across all 50 states and 5 Canadian provinces. We also integrate retail tenant buildouts in our own mixed-use buildings. While each project is unique, some common strategies include salvaging fixtures, furniture, and design elements where feasible to maximize resource and cost savings.

When it comes to a holistic approach to sustainability, look no further than our robust delivery of high quality, sustainable, mixed-use projects across the region. Vertical density allows retail to be sustainable and lessen contribution to the state’s number one source of emissions: transportation. Whether located downtown, an established neighborhood, or in a suburban community, our delivery of retail spaces designed for success is continuously informed by our background in mixed-use.

Properties: 2201/Enso, Amazon Nitro, Amazon Frontier, Mary’s Place Family Center, Onni Block V, X3 Data Center

Retail Area: 85,000 sq ft

Retail Services: Home goods, clothing, restaurants, café, bakery, grocery, bike shop, bank

The Denny Regrade mixed-use district illustrates many aspects of Graphite’s sustainable practice, but also showcases our ability to understand sustainable retail. The Regrade delivers retail goods and services where the community lives and works. From home goods, food and beverage, to clothing, and groceries. Customers arrive by foot, bike, or transit; they shop and generate an economy built on lower emissions and urban vibrancy. In this mixed-use district customers arrive throughout the day, providing 24/7/365 activation, and create the economic opportunity for successful retail.

Mixed-Use and Sustainable Retail go hand in hand.

When designing mixed-use buildings, we limit the need for tenants to deconstruct or create waste from the existing shell provided. Our retail expertise allows us to deliver spaces that save resources and occupy energy efficient spaces. Utilities are placed based on our experience with a variety of retail clients, and we know what it takes to finish a retail build-out. This inside knowledge allows us to deliver a shelled space that streamlines delivery, limits waste, shares resources, and creates economic value.