Electric Plaza and Harvey's at CGTC

Electric Plaza_ ft. Harvey's Supermarket
Central Georgia Technical College (2016)
Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Mixed-Use, Office, Commercial, Grocery

Remember the Harvey's Supermarket that I had designed, in convenience of Central Georgia Technical College, a while back? If no, click here. Around the time I modeled the grocery store, they had already refurbished the original building into what is called the Charles H. Jones Advanced Tech. Center for CGTC, in which I was unaware, at the time.
In result, I decided redesign the grocery store as it merges in with a commercial center, and a five story office building. The entire project is not really titled, so I just nicknamed it Electric Plaza. It's right next to the Jones Advanced Tech. Center, where I originally designed Harvey's. The facility would replace the Macon Flea Market shopping center, and become an addition to the college campus. Again, The building is made up of Harvey's Supermarket, A commercial strip plaza for tenants, and a five story office (or educational) facility. The view is also clear from Eisenhower Parkway, if this project did exist.

The Electric Plaza Office Space has the first level as the lobby and clerk center, and on the second floor onward, are just office spaces. Each level has 9' 7/16 foot tall windows. Right below the building is a parking deck for office space occupants. There is also another parking lot behind the building, where another strip mall currently is located. The front of the building is a drop-off ramp, and not for parking unless it's around night time, or whatever float's the school's boat.
The shape of the roof was one of the focal points I want to make off of the building. The wavy gray roof would stand out more. Without it, The general design would just be bland.

The video shows you 360 degrees of the building, and even close up front of the plaza.

The directory only shows the first-floor plan. Due to timing, I will not attempt to go al five floors. The first floor, however, is the most important due to it's relationship with the ground parking deck, and the second floor onward. This is where the grocery store, the tenant space, and the entrance to the office space is located, all together.

If anyone is curious to see floors G or 2-5, they can e-mail me, and I will work on the second-fifth level of the building, and send it to them privately.

If you're confused. The 'then' picture is with the new building, as the 'now' is where the current shopping center is located.

Just to give you a small history; The current shopping center was originally a Kroger, with a Circuit City anchored next to it. Around 2001, Kroger left, and years later, so did Circuit City. Later on, Macon Flea Market moved into the former Kroger. Circuit City was also replaced with something else.

CGTC started taking up surrounding properties which were once plaza's etc; 3300 Macon Tech Drive was once an average strip mall, The bookstore was something else before CGTC got ahold of it, There's a building at the end where I placed the lake which is owned by CGTC, and of course, they took the former Toys R Us (which was where I designed the first Harvey's) and converted it into a advanced tech center.

For this reason, it would make much sense to design something in favor of the campus since it's expanding.

Kitchen's Grocery

Kitchen's Grocery Store (2016)
Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.
Commercial, Supermarket, Pharmacy

Kitchen's Grocery, or kitchen's, is a made-up grocery store that I designed in the lot of the former Piggly Wiggly off Eisenhower Parkway, near Pep Boys Auto Center. The grocery store consist of a supermarket, pharmacy, deli café, and other typical grocery store accessories. The building had been vacant, and I just replaced it, with this new store building, with a simple grocery store kick to it. I doubled up the cornices of the building, excluding the entrance end of the building. The entrance has three automatic doors, and the two manual doors to the Deli Café. There's not much interesting, besides the building. It's just to bring convenience to the locals in the neighborhood, since there's barely any grocery stores in the area since Piggly Wiggly closed down.

Kitchen's Grocery ad is just a spoof under the influence of the Seth Rogan animated film 'Sausage Party'. In the ad, The girl eats the pear family's father figure, in other words, she's eating a pear, while the pear's wife and kids go through horror! The ad has the slogan 'Every food's death camp' with 'death' smeared out. There's nothing positive about the ad.

The directory of Kitchen's Grocery just shows the areas of where every section is located. The backroom has no details on the plan. From what you see, This is not like most 2000s style grocery stores, as it has a metro-confused shopping pattern, like I did with 'Murder' Kroger. The measurement is in English, based on feet.

The approximate 13 1/3 x 12 3/4 foot sign would replace the former Piggly Wiggly sign. It would make more sense, to place Pep Boys underneath since the original sign has them labeled, as well. The blank space is just incase of later development, or any surrounding businesses to use it for their signage.

The 360 degree video shows the store building. Also, I sealed off the west driveway to give the store a more clean look, and not being fully surrounded by driveways.

The sitemap should make the store location very clear. Kitchen's would replace the former building and it would function as a typical grocery store. This area goes way back! Just west, was where I designed that crappy Westgate Renaissance (which I did regret), also recently, I designed a breakfast restaurant to replace the local IHOP and Taco Bell, and branded it is Bob Evans. Right across Pio Nono, and Eisenhower, (diagonal Northwest) is where I designed a Costco Wholesale. Also, I was placing several other options where I had put Kitchen's; The original plan was to open a Harris Teeter grocery store, but instead of trying to place a known brand, I wanted to just create something of my own.

How did I come up with the name 'Kitchen's' with a lowercase 'k' and a period instead of a comma? Well, Most of what the store sells goes where in your house? In the kitchen. The name isn't after anyone, but just a title. There are names of several brands that are named after typical places, animals, and objects; for example Chili's, Shark's Fish & Chicken, and I had also assumed Church's chicken, but that doesn't count, since it was named off the founder. Kitchen's, on the other hand, is just named after the kitchen's in every house and facility in the world. The lowercase k, and the period, are just to make the title less amusing.

The grocery store is every food's death camp!