Architect Meetings

On January 8th Scotney Fenton and Michelle Sacco from RDG came to town to hold the second meeting with the downtown facade owners.  During this meeting the owners were able to see potential drawings of what their building could look like once construction would occur.  This was a great way to judge if the Architects' ideas and the building owners' ideas were on the same page.  Various improvements that were discussed included new windows, new transom windows, rehabilitate existing windows, new signage, new awnings, masonry repair, staining masonry, repointing masonry, and new doors.

  

The Architects (left) from RDG discuss improvements to a downtown building
with two building owners (right) for the Storm Lake Downtown Facade Project.

Since the meetings, Scotney and Michelle have been diligently working on the building drawings.  They have incorporated the input they received from the building owners and still tried to keep the historic aspects of our downtown in mind.  These drawings will be submitted to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) with the historical surveys for each building to make sure that any building that is deemed historic will have improvements that preserve and enhance the historical characteristic of the building. 

The drawings are still in the draft phase but it is awesome to see what some downtown buildings could look like with a little improvements!

If any building owner in the Storm Lake Downtown would still like to participate in the grant please contact Emily Haselhoff at 712-732-8002 or e-mail Haselhoff@stormlake.org!