Type: Retail
Project Name: White Plains Center Parking Structure
City: White Plains
State: New York
Client: Cappelli Enterprises, Inc.

Features: Ten-level, five-bay wide, 2,450 space parking pre-cast concrete parking garage. The retail facility includes a Target retail store below, Circuit City store above, a Movie Theatre above that, a Barnes & Noble and two 35-story residential towers.

Description: This large parking facility serves City Center, which is the key component to the city of White Plains’ downtown urban redevelopment program. This 1,100,00 square foot, multi-level, residential, entertainment and retail complex also includes restaurants and a multi-plex movie theater, each located on different floors within the same building. The site is the former home of “Macy’s” department store, built in the early 1900’s. That structure was razed along with a parking structure built in the early 1960’s, to make way for the redevelopment project. The new retail facility consists of a 150,000 square foot “Target” retail store that is located on the lower level (approximately two typical stories below grade) with a one level (two typical stories high) 36,000 square foot “Circuit City” electronics store above. An 80,000 square foot, fifteen screen National Amusements Movie Theater is on top of the “Circuit City” store. The complex also includes a 27,000 square foot Barnes & Noble and two 35-story residential towers.

The garage is a double threaded helix design with three levels below grade and six levels above grade. The 2nd below grade level of the parking structure connects to the lower level “Target” store entrance via a pedestrian walkway tunnel that runs beneath an existing service road that separates the retail center from the parking garage. An enclosed elevated walkway bridge connects the sixth level of the garage (3rd supported level above grade) to the National Amusements Movie Theater. Shopping cart corrals are conveniently located on each level of the parking structure to accommodate the “Target” store shoppers.

DESMAN is the Architect and Structural Engineer of Record and Parking Consultant for the parking structure.