Client: Premier Bank of Tallahassee

Project: Branch Banks in Bradfordville, Florida and Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee

Cost: $750,000 / $800,000

Status: Built

Delivery: Bid

Description: 2,500 sf and 3,500 sf branch banks. The Bradfordville Bank was done first and the design had to respond to strict town guidelines which dictated a traditional vernacular style. I chose to do a turn-of-the-century stylized cracker building with wrap around porches, 16' high ceilings, clapboard siding, heart pine floors and other such details that would have been common with this genre.

The bank now uses this design for all their new ground-up branches.

As with all my projects of this scale, I produced 100% of the architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical drawings. The 35 page set was produced in 2 months and used an index system which was hot-linked to a web data sheet. Included in this hot-link were the manufacturer's name, product info and cost. This was very helpful to the estimator and a big reason why 4 bids were only $60,000 apart on the $750,000 bank and $40,000 apart on the $800,000 project! That and tight detailing. See for your yourself.