Institutional Projects
WCG Performing Arts & Enrichment Centers
Project Information:
Location: Franklin, Tennessee
Project Size: 2-story, 24,061 g.s.f. (Enrichment Center) & 1-story, 8,672 g.s.f. (Performing Arts Center)
2017 ABC EXCELLENCE IN CONSTRUCTION AWARD WINNER Eagle Award
Project Description:
The main design goal of the project was to complete the masterplanned repurposing of the old Battle Ground Academy campus purchased by Williamson County when BGA moved their campus in 1996. The scope of the project included repurposing Coverdale Hall (the second oldest gymnasium in Tennessee) into a Performing Arts Center (yellow shading), a new Community Enrichment Center (blue shading), four pickleball courts (purple shading), a bocce court (green shading), rework of a campus pedestrian quad/plaza incorporating a new water feature (red shading), a plaza highlighting a historic well w/stone walls that were hand laid by slaves (cyan shading), and additional, shared campus parking w/a pocket park (brown shading).
The Performing Arts Center (yellow shading, top rendering below, and upper right thumbnail) provides a multipurpose space for community theater, musical performances, along with many other performing arts programs. The Community Enrichment Center (blue shading, bottom rendering below, and bottom two thumbnails) provides space to serve the multi-generational programming offered by the Williamson County Parks & Recreation Department including multipurpose meeting rooms, warming kitchen, break room, program rooms, wellness area, senior activity room, classrooms, heritage room, dance studio, and porches & balconies.
WCG Historic Courthouse Historic Preservation and Addition
Project Information:
Location: Franklin, TN
Project Size: Three-stories/46,754 square feet
PRESERVATION AWARD WINNER
Project Description:
The project scope included renovation, infill and reuse of the existing, historic courthouse. The Williamson County Courthouse was originally completed in 1858 under the supervision of John W. Mille and is one of seven antebellum courthouses in Tennessee. It was used as Federal headquarters during the Civil War and served as a hospital after the Battle of Franklin. The interior was remodeled in 1937, 1964, and 1976, and the annex was added in 1976. It is one of the oldest government buildings in Middle Tennessee, is one of the prominent landmarks on the square in historic, downtown Franklin, and has been a focal point for Williamson County for many years. Because of its history and prominence, Williamson County wanted to take measures to preserve and protect this landmark as part of its recently completed renovation and additions. The program provided by the Owner included leasable office spaces that were accessible to the public on the first two floors, and secure, criminal justice spaces on the upper level. The project connected the secure, upper level of the historic courthouse to the secure judicial center, adjacent to and previously separate from the historic courthouse, via a pedestrian bridge over an existing vehicular access drive.
Bibb-White Bluff Civic Center
Project Information:
Location: White Bluff, TN
Project Size: 10,300 square feet (Main Building)
Project Description:
The site was a four-phase development that included a community center, an open-air amphitheater, ADA-compliant walking trails, park restrooms, and picnic pavilion w/accessible grilles. Since the original Phase 1 construction for the Community Center, two subsequent phases associated with grant projects have followed on the site. The first was provided the outdoor, covered amphitheater with tiered, grass seating, and the second the restroom/pavilion and accessible walking trails.
