Florida Plastics

Evergreen Park, IL       

The Client manufactures and assembles fast food restaurant drive thru menu boards.  Their products are manufactured in numerous languages, and are used throughout the world.  The existing operation was spread across numerous smaller buildings in Evergreen Park.  They wanted to centralize their production facilities. The project required renovating an existing abandoned car dealership, and building a manufacturing addition in the area that was once the new car parking lot.  The project fronts on a main street, with a residential district behind the site.  The site is located in an area that has mixed light industrial and commercial uses.  Due to the adjacent commercial and residential uses, it was desired that the building not look like a manufacturing facility.  At the same time the client wanted a building that would be cost effective to build and operate.  The resulting design incorporates a mix of commercial and residential forms and materials.  The addition incorporated design features that were part of the original building.