In October, our work focused on community — creating a front door to the arts, expanding a popular event center, and designing a long-needed youth behavioral health services center. We are also on track to make all our offices healthier and safer with the WELL Health-Safety rating, recently achieved in seven HGA offices. Check out these projects and more happening across the firm below.
Completed Project
The HGA-designed Fine and Performing Arts Complex at William & Mary is complete, just in time for the University’s Year of the Arts celebration. Beginning with a master plan for the University’s new Arts Quarter, HGA designed a new music building and renovated Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Memorial Hall which houses theater and dance. The new Music Building includes a 492-seat concert hall, 100-seat recital hall, rehearsal and recording space, music labs, and practice rooms. PBK Memorial Hall includes four venues for theater and dance, production and design labs, acting studios and classrooms. The Arts Quarter also includes, the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Arts, Andrews Hall, and the Andrews Gallery. Learn more about the facilities here.
Groundbreaking
HGA joined Saz’s Hospitality Group for a groundbreaking ceremony kicking off the expansion of South Second, an event space in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood. The expansion will include an all-seasons patio and an outdoor bar and roof deck, with the ability to accommodate an additional 250 guests for events like weddings, holiday parties, and corporate gatherings. The indoor portion of South Second is a large hall with a mezzanine lounge, a service kitchen, a bridal room, storage, and support space, designed to match the industrial character of the neighborhood. HGA designed the original South Second, completed in 2016, and will lead the design of the outdoor expansion, scheduled to be completed in Spring of 2024. Check out HGA’s previous work on South Second here.
Topping-Out
The HGA-designed Child, Adolescent, and Adult Behavioral Health Services Center at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center celebrated a significant construction milestone with a topping-out ceremony. The last steel beam, covered in signatures of the project team and health care providers, was placed as part of the ceremony. The center will be the first child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric hospital in the county, offering services for adults on a separate floor. Once complete, the center will include 77 inpatient beds, an outpatient urgent care for minors and adults, emergency psychiatric services with secured ambulance entry bays and treatment spaces, and a shared pharmacy, administrative offices, a pedestrian skyway bridge, and a new, 700-car parking structure. Watch the highlights here.
Awards and Certifications
Angie Edwards, HGA’s Chief Financial Officer, has been selected as a 2023 CFO of the Year winner by the Milwaukee Business Journal. Angie joined HGA in 2021 and has more than 25 years of experience as a senior finance executive in professional services, manufacturing, and Fortune 500 companies. The award recognizes Milwaukee-area chief financial officers or heads of finance and chief marketing officers who are making a difference within their companies or organizations. The program is part of the C-Suite Star awards and is designed to recognize the important work CFOs and marketing professionals do in making southeast Wisconsin firms successful. Read more here.
Seven of HGA’s thirteen offices received the WELL Health-Safety rating, with two more recertifying this year. The WELL Health-Safety rating, developed by the International WELL Building Institute, includes guidelines for health, safety, and well-being of building occupants and focuses on six health-safety themes including: Cleaning and Sanitization Procedures, Emergency Preparedness Programs, Health Service Resources, Air and Water Quality Management, Stakeholder Engagement and Communication, and Innovation. The rating requires a building to obtain at least fifteen features from the indicated themes. The certified offices include Sacramento, Minneapolis, Rochester, Madison, Milwaukee, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, and San Diego with plans to certify all HGA offices in the future. Learn more here.