HOSPITALITY
Unique Innovation
Hotels, motels, pubs, restaurants, bars, cafes and other hospitality venues require most spaces to be stable and structured, yet other spaces that offer clever, flexible configurations. EDM has this experience in a host of different styles - cozy, chic, traditional, vintage, modern, luxurious or minimalist - with clients and owners that represent major brands to small, boutique lodging.
Chocolatetown in Hersheypark
Hershey Entertainment | Hershey, PA
EDM was the Structural Engineer-of-Record for Chocolatetown, supporting Lead Architect, PGAV Destinations. The first phase of this expansion’s multiple upgrades and new attractions including 20,000 SF, 2-level of restaurants and shops, a new entry village, and Candymonium, a sensational new 4,600 LF ride, and all associated structures including a 3-level station, 5,000 SF covered queue building,
3-level, 1,900 SF maintenance building, lockers and ancillary attractions. Renderings and photos courtesy of PGAV and Hershey Entertainment
EDM Services: Structural Engineering / Foundation Design
Great Wolf Resorts
Multiple Resorts
Great Wolf Lodge, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
​Great Wolf Lodge, Pocono Mountains, PA | 400-room hotel and indoor water park
Big Bear Lodge, Traverse City, MI | 300-room hotel and indoor water park
Blue Harbor Resort, Sheboygan, WI | 200-room facility hotel, indoor water park, conference center, condominiums
EDM Services: MEP/FP Engineering, Architecture Support
Edison Condominiums | OYO Hotel
St. Louis, MO
This renovation reutilized a 1928 warehouse - built by JC Penney's but sold to Edison Brothers in the 1950s - into a mixed use of condominiums, hotel, garage, bar and restaurant amenities. The 13-floor building has the entrance, restaurants and bar at street level, followed by a 3-level garage, 4-levels for 200 hotel rooms, 4-levels for 56 condos, then the top floor has a conference center with banquet and meeting rooms, indoor pool, gym, and outdoor seating with grills for residents. EDM coordinated engineering requirements with the architect and contractors, as well as reviewed work during construction to verify conformance to the design-build criteria.
EDM Services: MEP/FP and Structural Engineering
Old Post Office Plaza Renovation
St. Louis, MO
Baird, Sampson Neuert Architects of Toronto won a design competition to create a park in downtown St. Louis near the Old Post Office. BSN retained EDM as the Architect-of-Record, also providing MEP and civil engineering services. Elements include outdoor dining, water features, artistic statues dedicated to Icarus from the Greek mythology, and an outdoor movie screen. The new plaza’s target audience is residents of downtown St. Louis as well as workers, students and users of the Old Post Office Library. EDM was also the Engineer-of-Record for the renovation of the circa 1884 Old Post Office building, located south of the plaza.
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EDM Services: Architectural Coordination, MEP and Civil Engineering
