The location for this project is at the corner of Lake and College Streets on the Burlington Waterfront. The vision continues as we move north from the Union Station which has been committed to visual arts for more than a decade to Lake and College where we see a very strong focus on performance art. The connection to the Park allows the building forms to be the backdrop as well as the linkage across Battery Street. The project creates an edge to the park that provides warmth and comfort, access and visual experience, and a range of amenities that will serve and compliment the public urban park.

The design for this important waterfront location is based on the current zoning law that allows construction to a height of fifty feet above Lake Street north of College Street . We believe in a project that is pedestrian friendly. The Property abuts the Battery Park extension to the west. The goal of this project is to create a design that connects "local" mixed-use functions with public access. To insure this, a pedestrian linkage from Battery Park Extension to the Waterfront has been developed with a central overlook, stair, and elevator system whereby the public can walk from the park through the project to the waterfront. Thirty percent of this project is common area.

 

We plan to construct a pedestrian-friendly streetscape along Lake Street that invites people into the businesses, shops, performing arts facilities, and the pedestrian promenades. A mix of exterior designs will give the look of several individual buildings like seen on lower Battery Street. The focus will be on local businesses, with an independent film movie theater, a black-box performance theater, and a restaurant.

 

A solarium will create a view corridor at the corner of College & Lake. There will be 60,000 square feet of commercial space throughout the project - focusing primarily on local retail and office uses. This commercial activity will be connected to the mixed-use/performing arts redevelopment offering a wide variety of interests to the retail and office visitors. Offices, shops, cultural spaces, and public areas will create a very local experience with great views for all functions.

 

We will insure that at the Battery Park Extension there is central focus. We hope to improve the steeply sloped embankment into a beautifully terraced usable environment for the public. Therefore, we will be providing access and use of land underutilized because of the steep slope. We will be creating approximately 18,000 square feet of new City park space plaza. We will offer a series of pedestrian friendly "local" businesses and shops staggered along Lake Street 's edge which will provide a pleasing mix of visual beauty, local character and charm. Small spaces will house locally owned businesses, shops, and artist studios. The office space on the second floor will house local businesses. Along Battery Park Extension you will see the flicker of marquee's for both the Black Box performing arts theater and the two-screen 140 person each Cinema's. The performing arts elements will enliven the park and create a spectacular offering for citizens and tourists to enjoy Burlington and its remarkable arts and cultural community.

 

The architectural style will use brick, stone, slate, with copper roofs, and traditional local materials. It will be accented with New England forms and geometry. Dormers, awnings, roof elements, and porches will allow the connected structure to carry this human scale throughout the development. The punched window elements and the combination of canvas and millwork that has special detail and texture will allow the viewer to feel pleased with the mixed-uses provided. At this site that is now black top and embankment retaining wall, the Lake and College Street Project will create a human-scale environment that promotes public access, mixed-use environs, cultural amenities, and an architectural backdrop to Lake Champlain.

 

This project is being built with Sustainable principles that strongly adhere to environmental and social guidelines. Main Street Landing will be applying for LEEDS certification for the Lake and College Redevelopment Project.