Storefront Placemaking – Virtual Reality Venue
aec Confidential Client | As placemaking consultants, we explored the potential for augmented reality “gatekeepers” as part of place-making (placemaking) for a retail storefront.
aec Confidential Client | As placemaking consultants, we explored the potential for augmented reality “gatekeepers” as part of place-making (placemaking) for a retail storefront.
The Rouse Company | There are a great many options for placemaking, depending upon the guest trip motivation and intent of the gathering place and facility. As placemaking designers we enjoy the opportunity of adding a layer to the experiential design with staged events and integrated media displays that can add another driver to a “gather and stare” place.

Confidential Client | Project feasibility evaluation in progress; involves redevelopment (regeneration) of now demolished facilities. Project site in the greater Richmond (Virginia) area.
Work includes evaluation of highest-and-best development opportunities for the site, with detailed evaluations of specific land uses. A continuum of care concept for seniors is part of concept testing, along with specific categories of the continuum including free and independent living, assisted living for seniors, skilled nursing facilities, and the like. Non senior land uses are also in evaluation.
Work as opportunity zone consultants also includes entitlements, zoning and permitting review, capital budgeting, operating projections, and project risk assessment.

aec Camnol Inc. | As the themed entertainment consultant for the project, we conducted initial ideation workshops and prepared first conceptual plans for a visitor attraction at Film Studio Chuncheon (South Korea). The driving “big idea” was to popular the backlot with interactive immersions – real and virtual – based upon popular online electronic game brands and K-pop stars of South Korea.
Downstream Casino Resort is located in Quapaw, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma’s borders with the states of Missouri and Kansas.
Gaming and hospitality veteran Timothy J. Brown served as President and General Manager for this major casino resort, during from 2007 through year-end 2010.
The full-service destination gaming resort is owned and operated by Downstream Development Authority of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma. The casino resort features 70,000 square feet of gaming space, 374 guestrooms in two towers, numerous restaurants, and a variety of meeting and event spaces. The resort opened in mid-year 2008.
Timothy Brown and Adventure Entertainment Cos. (“AEC”) have formed a joint venture to provide full-service consulting, project design-development management, and location-based entertainment to casino and gaming resort facilities. AEC is an operating unit of StoneCreek Partners LLC.
