Project Spotlight Tour: Langan Leader, January 2024

Learn more about Langan’s involvement in our featured projects.

  • Blanquita B. Valenti Community School, New Brunswick, NJ
  • The Battery, Philadelphia, PA
  • 8301 Old Dowd Road, Charlotte, NC
  • Maceo May Apartments, San Francisco, CA
  • Corridor Commerce Center, Buda, TX
  • Wegmans, Norwalk, CT

Blanquita B. Valenti Community School

OVERVIEW
Blanquita B. Valenti Community School is a three-story, 127,500 SF, K-8 public school in New Brunswick. The state-of-the-art facility provides classrooms, science demonstration rooms, computer/technology laboratories, a media center, a multi-purpose room, a playground, and an expanded cafeteria for approximately 800 students. Langan provided multidisciplinary services for the project, including the design of a new signaled intersection to create safer pedestrian crossings and more efficient ingress and egress, as well as environmental remediation activities during construction.

Location
New Brunswick, NJ

Client
New Brunswick Development Corporation

Services
Environmental
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial
Traffic & Transportation

Architect
DMR Architects


The Battery

OVERVIEW
The Battery project involves the renovation of the abandoned Delaware Power Station, which supplied power to Philadelphia until 2004. The 500,000 SF facility includes a two-story residential addition, event spaces, and offices. Langan developed an investigation plan to obtain depths and locations of utilities within the site, including the outfalls. We also worked closely with the Philadelphia Water Department to develop a design that met stormwater management regulations and limited project improvements through the agency’s right-of-way. Following the building renovation, the next project phase will provide a 300-space parking lot, landscaping, stormwater management, site lighting, and a 900-foot waterfront trail connecting the site to the Delaware River Trail in Penn Treaty Park.
AWARDS
2024 Preservation Alliance Grand Jury Award
2024 AIA Philadelphia Design Award

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Fastrack Construction

Services
Site/Civil
Traffic & Transportation
Natural Resources & Permitting
Landscape Architecture


SunPointe CLT – 8301 Old Dowd Road

OVERVIEW
Located less than one mile from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, this 373,950 SF Class A warehouse features a 2,162 SF office space, a 60’ loading bay, 374 car parking spaces, trailer and box truck parking, and easy access to I-85, I-485, I-77, and I-40. Langan completed preliminary design work, including paving, grading, and drainage plans; permit processing; water and sewer improvements; and site lighting design. A project challenge involved designing the cut fill for 600,000 cubic yards of earthwork that our team successfully addressed using their experience from similar projects. 

Location
Charlotte, NC

Client
SunCap Property Group

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


Maceo May Apartments

OVERVIEW
Maceo May Apartments is the first building to go vertical within the Treasure Island master-planned redevelopment. The six-story affordable housing building provides 105 homes for formerly unhoused veterans, as well as amenities including community rooms, laundry, parking, a healing garden, culinary gardens, outdoor pet areas, a playground, and a roof deck. This project is the second all-electric affordable housing building in San Francisco and provides protection from rising sea levels. Langan’s environmental team completed a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment to evaluate land use practices, site conditions, and the potential presence of hazardous substances in the soil and groundwater. We also completed the Maher Ordinance application and conducted closure reporting for the site.

Location
San Francisco, CA

Clients
Chinatown Community Development Center
Swords to Plowshares

Service
Environmental

Strategic Partners
Mithun
Cahill Contractors


Corridor Commerce Center

OVERVIEW
The Corridor Commerce Center is a 157,450 SF, Class A speculative warehouse building, strategically located on I-35 between Austin and San Antonio. Langan’s services included permitting with the City of Buda, Texas Department of Transportation, and the Southwest Water Company, as well as sanitary lift station design and floodplain development. We also designed retaining walls to manage the complex elevation changes across the site.

Location
Buda, TX

Client
Alliance Industrial Company

Services
Site/Civil
Traffic & Transportation
Environmental
Landscape Architecture


Wegmans – Norwalk

OVERVIEW
Wegmans is set to open its first location in Connecticut with a two-level, 95,000 SF facility and adjoining multilevel parking structure on an 11.5-acre site. Langan conducted boundary and topographic surveys, geotechnical and environmental assessments, traffic impact studies, and zoning code review, and provided concept plan refinement to confirm permit compliance. Project challenges included removing underground storage tanks and obtaining approval for signal upgrades and roadway/pedestrian improvements from the Office of the State Traffic Administration and the Norwalk Transportation, Mobility, and Parking Department. Langan’s integrated approach helped the project achieve regulatory compliance, environmental responsibility, and community integration.

Location
Norwalk, CT

Client
Wegmans Food Markets

Services
Traffic & Transportation
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial
Environmental
Landscape Architecture
Geotechnical


Selected Projects