Bay Street Retail Center, Emeryville CA

Biggs Cardosa was selected to provide design services for a 1.8-million sf major retail and residential project. This new urban mixed-use project features 400,000 sf of retail, a 100,000 sf cinema and a 1,600-car parking garage. The overall goal for the project was to create a downtown shopping center that would serve as a neotraditional Main Street and become a communal center for the City. The project was found to be economically feasible only after we developed value-engineering solutions to save $8 million in construction costs.