The downtown of Alpharetta, Georgia is truly the heart of the city, offering residents and visitors alike an inviting space to eat, shop, work, and play. With its popularity on the rise, the city sought additional public parking to meet the demands of the growing traffic. Tindall was brought to the designbuild table early to help imagine and create one of the city’s solutions — a stunning, four-story total precast parking deck that perfectly matched the surrounding downtown architecture of Milton Avenue.
Owner
City of Alpharetta, GA
Architect
TreanorHL and Walker Consultants
Contractor
The Christman Company
Location
Alpharetta, GA
From the beginning of the project, it was clear that aesthetics would play a major role in the creation of this 110,000-square-foot construction. On top of offering 260 parking spaces and first-floor retail locations, the deck needed to seamlessly blend with the existing architecture of Alpharetta. Working closely with the design teams and contractor, Tindall developed a cost-effective solution that saved over three months’ construction time — brick-faced architectural wall panels in place of field-laid brick. Tindall’s engineers helped carefully design precast architectural panels that featured uniformly spaced openings which perfectly mimicked local commercial buildings, cleverly disguising the functionality of the deck’s total precast interior. Tindall also utilized curves, recesses, intricate patterns, and separately attached cornices to bring the vision to life. In the end, the Tindall team created a total precast structure that met all of the project’s requirements, remained under budget, and was erected in just six weeks.
