Old Billings Hardware Building

DESCRIPTION

When the building owners worked with another architecture firm for a feasibility study, they got a design solution and a cost estimate. But, because they didn’t have the required funds, the project didn’t move forward.

Working with High Plains Architects and Long View Development, they also got a workable pro forma and then a legal partnership so they could raise the necessary private equity. We provide not only the design solution but also the financial solution so that the project moves forward.

The Old Billings Hardware Building was historically both the wholesale warehouse for hardware and housewares coming off the adjacent rail siding but also a retail location when it opened in 1909. It occupies a key downtown intersection and will become a preeminent mixed-use building with commercial spaces on the first floor and basement and apartments on the second and third floors.