Broadway Grill
Project Features:
- New restaurant in an existing historic bank building.
- Adaptive reuse of historic building
- Substantial restoration of previously removed materials and components
- Focus on comfortable, traditional forms and images to address local tastes and local memory of the original bank use.
A Critical project for an awakening Street:
Broadway is fast becoming a vibrant neighborhood street serving a dense walkable neighborhood anchored by a commuter rail station.
Broadway has been static for some time due to archaic city planning policies. The Broadway Grill is the first project to take advantage of changing policies that will allow greater density and greater commercial activity on the street.
The Restaurant is locally owned and operated and specifically designed to serve the surrounding neighborhoods while still attracting visitors from other neighborhoods.
Since opening it has put people on the street later, making the street safer and benefiting other businesses who seek to stay open later in the evening. This will likely increase the feasibility of increased high quality housing and employment on the street, allowing it to recapture its former identity as an important local neighborhood center.
The project captures imagery of places and periods important to many neighbors and the community as a whole. Interiors are designed to be elegant yet drift toward the informal. Colors and lighting generate a lively, yet mature spatial environment, offering both intimacy at each table as well as a sense of inclusion in a more celebratory moment.
It is designed to stimulate non-specific and variable cultural memories, generating a sense of familiarity and comfort, while remaining timeless and durable as a destination.
