Whole Foods Market Montrose is 45,000 sf retail space, that includes a coffee lounge and dining area, sales floor, kitchen/service area, food storage area and administrative offices. Store features include:
- Sustainable elements, such as natural light, LED lighting inside and outside, and solar tracking skylights, which adjust interior lighting based on ambient natural light; reclaimed Texas woods; and a secondary cooling system for refrigeration and air conditioning that uses a water loop to displace heat
- Indoor/outdoor seating area enclosed (or not) by retractable garage-style doors
- 10 full-service cashier lanes and six express lanes
- A 32-foot beer cooler
Structures also provided structural services for signage, including monumental sign, pedestrian signs and shell building signs.
The shell was a suspended, voided foundation system supported on drilled straight shaft piers. CMU block wall, structural steel framing, and open web steel joist construction. The tenant finish out is soil supported slab on grade with depressions as required for coolers and freezers. Cold-formed and structural steel framed hanging soffits, ceilings, and hoods.
Location: Houston, Texas
Size: 45,000 sf
Architect: Stone Soup 6
Contractor: Journeyman Construction
