New concept for a retail and restaurant destination at the heart of Jacksonville Beach.

New store for a legendary Charleston jeweler in the heart of the historic city center. Under construction with completion anticipated in early 2025, this new home for Croghan's captures the elegance of the city while modernizing the customer experience and opeartions.

New ground up freestanding jewelry store for a new generation of an established Norman, OK, family jeweler. This design marries a modern aesthetic with traditional brand influences, including gathering spaces for community and event use and a monumental terrace.

New shopping center and self storage conceptual design.

Renovation of an existing restaurant for the new home of Harris Jeweler. Troy, Ohio.

Renovation of existing freestanding retail building for the new home of Ancona Jewelers. Under construction with completion in 2024.

New flagship jewelry store for regional powerhouse jeweler.

New retail design in a repurposed factory. McMurray, Pennsylvania

Conceptual design for a new jewelry store retail space in Rochester, Minnesota.

Jewelry store renovation project in Aiken, South Carolina.

Renovation of existing jewelry store in a historic banking hall, downtown Frederick, Maryland.

New jewelry store in progress for Lasker Jewelers in Rochester, MN.

Shaftel Diamonds relocated from a wholesale jewelry building to a high end retail plaza. The clients sought a new brand identity and an environment that would make a big impact on the Houston retail scene.

New retail building and jewelry store for MarBill Jewelers in Belle Vernon, PA.

Caves Jewelers relocated to Midlothian, Texas, from a traditional jewelry store environment. The clients sought a boutique-like setting compared to their traditional jewelry store past, jettisoning some low volume jewelry categories in favor of an open plan with amenities and event capacity. We layered the jewelry display and store functions so encourage exploration and allow for seamless observation through the store.

New shopping center and entertainment destination concept for Jacksonville's Ponte Vedra neighborhood.

Conceptual design for a store renovation and expansion in Traverse City, MI.

New shopping center concept for the Dunns Creek suburb of Jacksonville, FL.

This shopping center facelift concept will revitalize a Class B center in Tarpon Springs, FL

This concept is for a gourmet market in the heart of Hot Springs, serving tourists and downtown residents alike.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | Altmed, a medical cannabis research and production company, engaged us to design the retail experience for its MuV dispensaries. Starting with a prototype dispensary in Sarasota, we continue to design locations around the state of Florida. The design speaks to the medical research side of the business, differentiating MuV from more lifestyle oriented dispensaries. A clean palette of materials and fixtures clearly displays product information, while the arrangement of point of sale and express checkouts allows for efficient customer service. Each location adapts the prototype to a different setting, from a freestanding former Taco Bell in Longwood to a medical complex in Wellington, and inline retail spaces in other locations.

Randy Mitchum sought to expand his freestanding store in 2017 after outgrowing the existing space. The project first focused on the addition, but quickly expanded to include a comprehensive redesign of the existing retail space and back of house reorganization. The resulting design seamlessly blends the old and new for a unified customer experience. The additional area allows for more defined brand zones, lounge areas, and consult spaces. For the showcase designs we built off of the architecture and Ozark feel with a combination of nature and white wood finishes, simple forms, and spots of greenery. We also wove the multigenerational Mitchum storyline into the store. In the lounge area a restored clock from the family's first store adorns one wall, while a mural with Randy's father serves as backdrop to the new concierge area. | Project in conjunction with Torgerson Design Group of Ozark.

Uniquely Bahamian is a boutique featured Bahamian made jewelry, apparel, and artwork. Located in the Baha Mar resort, this new outlet for the Dean Family's brand needed to match the caliber of other high end retailers on site. We chose a "Bahamian Living Room" theme and executed the theme with crisp white cabinetry, carefully integrated lighting, and a locally sourced mural at the back wall behind custom French doors.

Carter's Jewel Chest is a second generation family jeweler in Mountain Home, Arkansas. This project expanded an existing inline retail store, transforming Carter's into the region's premier retail destination. The space is part family jewelry store, part event space for the clients' numerous non profit affiliations, and part community living room. We blended several brand zones, including Hearts on Fire and John Hardy, into a cohesive design palette to effectively balance the brand identities with Carter's own established brand.

La Estrella is a pawn and jewelry business serving a broad cross section of the Aruban population. The owners sought a more upscale environment to make pawn customers feel as welcome and valued as customers of the tourist oriented jewelry shops nearby. Tenant improvements involved extensive facade work and a completely new interior. Conceived as a "third place" in the vein of Starbucks, the interior has a modern yet warm palette of materials with a generous lounge area and multiple consult spaces. Those making regular loan payments can now look forward to visiting La Estrella as a business that rewards them with a unique experience. The new location even lets La Estrella compete in the tourist market with a store that rivals the major brands near the cruise terminal mixed with the thrill of the hunt for pawned jewelry.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | Bere's Jewelers expanded from two leased locations to a single freestanding 7,200 SF building. The existing building served as a furniture store and required little changes to the building envelope. The client presented two challenges. First, the store had to cohesively include several brand zones without looking like a department store. Second, the store had to relate to the Pensacola community, serving as a social gathering spot. We addressed the first challenge primarily through material selection, finding a range of materials that speak to the different product zones but relate to each other for a seamless experience. For some brands - Pandora, Forevermark and Tag Heuer - we integrated brand specific casework. For other brands - Breitling and John Hardy - we adapted the new Bere'-specific case design to the brands. For the second challenge we considered the influence of the Pensacola Naval Air Station on the community and the gregarious social nature of the clients, Barry and Laura Cole. Materials and artwork, including a custom riveted aluminum wall made to look like an airplane hull, reference the aviation and military heritage. A full bar with beer taps and a long multifunction community table welcome customers to dwell and socialize in the store.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | New retail shopping center in Jacksonville beings a modern mixture of forms and materials to a traditional shopping center layout.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | This new mixed use retail, office, restaurant, and self storage project anchors a rapidly expanding Florida community. The design achieves a lifestyle center setting within a suburban context, with consistent architectural treatment that allows the self storage component to meld with the retail atmosphere.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | This is a mixed use project with ground floor retail and a five story climate controlled self storage facility. The challenge is to balance the identity of the large self storage occupant with multiple retail tenants.

We created this unique fashion concept for a startup. The client seeks to combine clothing, accessories, and styling services in an exciting environment, and we are exciting to help her pursue this dream.

Mulloy's is a full service jewelry store located at the Forum, in Carlsbad, California. In this small store space we emphasized front-sell cases at varying heights, which encourage customers to wander throughout the store. A crisp palette of light neutral color play against natural brick and reclaimed wood for a modern California feel.

Signet Jewelers Limited, parent company to Piercing Pagoda, commissioned Balaity Property Enhancement for the design of the Piercing Pagoda "Store of the Future". The directive was to elevate the customer experience with a modern new environment that encouraged exploration, while retaining the brand's core appeal for value oriented jewelry customers. Photographs show the first prototype installed at Summit Mall in Akron, Ohio. The design team explored numerous concepts, some of which are shown in the renderings.

Self storage facilities increasingly demand design themes that fit within their locales and stand out from the typical unadorned facilities of the past. The designs in this gallery were conceived for Patrick M. Pillot Architect and for individual self store investors throughout the U.S. Some are complete new facilities and others are adaptive reuse projects.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | Sweet Doctors is a family owned business specializing in deserts, coffee, and wine. The business moved from an existing shopping center location to a new inline retail space in Sarasota's new University Town Center mall. Our mission for the design was to create an iconic and eye catching experience in a small space to show of the hand crafted deserts. A combination of dark woods and white marble lend a timeless feel to the space, relating to traditional candy shops, while the bold wall graphics and polished concrete floors with green and pink glass lend the space a modern feel.

Fox Fine Jewelry, an independently owned store in Ventura, California, opened in July 2014 on the town's Main Street. The design furthers the establish jeweler's brand identity with a carefully orchestrated customer experience designed to highlight the store's custom work and broad range of merchandise.

This restaurant cluster concept answers the question of what to do when a traditional department store leaves a retail center and no other department store will fill its space. The transition to dining and entertainment space recognizes the consumer shift away from department stores and towards experiential spending. In this concept restaurants are given their own identities around a common green space, rather than fit into a mall design language.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect and Studio H2G | Jimmy's Seaside Fries is a new concept first launched in Clearwater, Florida. Balaity Property Enhancement helped develop the first kiosk location and will continue to adapt the prototype to new locations throughout the U.S.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | This new retail concept combines aspects of traditional jewelry sales and jewelry making along with a welcoming atmosphere for buying and loans. The flexible retail floor includes movable cases, traditional seated cases, and wall displays. Carats opened in February 2013. Visit the store at www.caratsfinejewelryandwatches.com/.

This coffee bar concept brings nautical and canine theming to a historic Sarasota storefront. Designed as a flexible space, the cafe will accommodate small performances, a library, full kitchen, and a variety of working and lounge settings.

Study for H&M

This conceptual design for the expansion of an existing lifestyle center focuses on an array of restaurant and entertainment venues to compliment the existing retail mix. Rooftop dining terraces overlook a central plaza and event space.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | role: project designer & project manager | With this new store under development for Fort Myers, we rethink the traditional notions of olive oil and balsamic vinegars stores. This industry is all about the customer's first hand experience with the product, which we emphasize with tasting stations throughout the sales floor. The display systems combine efficiency for the display of the various flavors of oils and vinegars, along with a boutique feel that lets the Owner highlight special items and integrate complimentary products throughout the store.

affiliation: Peter Winters Arhictect | role: project designer | Ross Elliott Jewelers is a family owned jewelry store located in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Owner purchased an existing bank to transition the business from a mall location into a freestanding building. The transition requires extensive renovations to change the fundamental identity of the existing building, constructed in 1983. The design advances the expectations for jewelry stores in Terre Haute with a contemporary, yet timeless palette of materials.

Balaity Property Enhancement created a fresh corporate identity for Dickey's Barbecue Pit at the Bell Tower Shops franchise. This design elevates the existing Dickey's brand for upscale locations.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot, Architect | role: project designer & project manager | The Fresh Market is an existing tenant at the Bell Tower Shops, occupying a former department store space. This project will transform the storefront with a new architectural language that compliments the evolved architectural language of the Bell Tower Shops. A new pedestrian plaza will enliven the Fresh Market experience with outdoor dining and sales opportunities. This project is currently in Design Development with an anticipated completion date of October 2012.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | role: project designer & project manager | Renovation of existing Ulta storefront to compliment overall architectural language of the Bell Tower Shops and promote Tenant's visibility. This project is currently under construction with an anticipate completion date of June 2012.

affiliation: Patrick M. Pillot Architect | role: project designer & project manager| Design of a new 6,400 retail store for the Diamond Vault, a family owned jewelry business. The new Diamond Vault opened in March 2012. The store placed as the number 3 Big Cool Store in InStore Magazine's 2013 America's Coolest Stores competition.

Affiliations: The ADP Group | Role: project designer | The 60,000 SF flagship store for Ada’s Natural Foods incorporates a unique specialty grocery and health club program into a two story themed environment based on the ruins of Pompeii. An internal street grid connects the lobby, food court, health services, full service restaurant, and grocery areas. Highlights along the “streets” include a wine grotto and a two story waterfall with a working Archimedes’ Screw. The project also included extensive interior landscaping and aviaries for exotic birds. A health club occupies the second floor, including a running track that overlooks the grocery store below. The shell design furthers a Tuscan architectural theme established for the surrounding lifestyle center, Tuscany Park.

affiliation: The ADP Group | role: project designer and project manager | The Bell Tower Shops is an outdoor retail project developed in the 1970s in Fort Myers, Florida. The project faced newer competition in the Fort Myers and Naples region, forcing the Owner/Operators to invest in a series of strategic upgrades in the midst of a down economy. The changes included new colors, site amenities, lighting, way finding, signage, and finish upgrades. These changes were unveiled along with a strategic marketing and community outreach program to increase the community‘s awareness of the property.

role: project designer | Black Hawk Café is an existing coffee house located at the Bell Tower Shops in Fort Myers, Florida. New café operators sought to update the interior environment to compliment the surrounding lifestyle center, which has been renovated to attract a more upscale and feminine customer base. Branding relates to the local region with the use of large scale black and white Florida Everglades photography. The upscale environment delivers a level of sophistication that exceeds customer expectations for independent coffee shops, while avoiding generic coffee house themes of national chains. There are three distinct interior environments: lounge seating with flexible furniture arranged along banquettes, a living room, and bistro style dining. This flexibility allows the café to accommodate different types of needs throughout the day, from morning coffee to evening wines accompanied by acoustic performances.

affiliation: Trapolin Architects | role: project designer | Lake Oaks Plaza was constructing in the late 1980s and did not meet the modern expectations for an upscale neighborhood retail center. The design proposal included a series of improvements and standards to attract national retailers and match the neighborhood’s demographic shift. A façade renovation retains the existing metal roofs, but adds a variety of parapets with prominent signage locations and a modern materials palette. New lighting addresses site safety and tenant standards. Expansion includes a new wing that adds height and visibility, plus a cluster of outparcel buildings. Outparcels are arranged in a pedestrian oriented configuration to increase consumer dwell time and co-tenancy opportunities. Surface parking is shielded from access roads behind the new outparcels to maximize visibility of the lifestyle oriented portion of the project.

Touch De L'Afrique is a retail and travel shop located on Sarasota's St. Armand's Circle. The retail portion of the space showcases African artwork, artifacts, and jewelry in a museum like atmosphere. The back portion includes a coffee bar, lounge, and conference room where safari vacations are presented.

affiliation: ADP Group & Van Dresser Company | role: project designer & project manager | As the first phase to a long range master plan (seen in the mixed-use gallery), the Owners sought to update the University Mall interiors. The existing materials were inadequate for the caliber of retail and dining tenants sought for the mall. This proposal enlivened the interior promenade with new functions, including a new coffee bar in Center Court, several stages for different types of performances, casual dining space, and a children’s play area. Displays are integrated throughout the mall to showcase local artists. The materials palette and furniture, selected with the Van Dresser Company, combine regional flavor with an upscale hospitality feel.