| | This interior fit-out project is a gourmet retail market with on-site specialty food preparation located in downtown Westville in New Haven, CT. The client’s requests were to create a gourmet market with an “urban” character without the aisle-after-aisle product display; become a neighborhood institution that offers a place to purchase high quality fresh goods, prepared foods and grocery staples; be a destination for neighbors and friends to meet and socialize, listen to music and participate in weekly scheduled poetry readings.
The architectural responses were to develop an alcove product display strategy; organize thematically, and tie into specialty services, programs and “themed” activities of the Owners; design movable alcove dividers to accommodate growth and changes in product interest while maintaining aesthetic continuity of the whole.
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