The Wheaton Apartments at Londonderry Village Palmyra, PA The Wheaton Apartments, at Londonderry Village (previously known as Lebanon Valley Brethren Home), is a new 3-story, 60,400 sf, 36 unit independent living apartment building, incorporating a new lobby area, serving as the main entrance to the facility. The one and two bedroom luxury apartments range from 685 – 1260 sf. …
Luther Acres at Luthercare Lititz, PA Luther Acres, part of Luthercare, offers the perfect blend of location, lifestyle, services and healthcare. Luther Acres is an established Continuing Care Retirement Community(CCRC) designed to meet the physical, spiritual and social aspirations of residents. Beers Hoffman contributed to the Muhlenberg Townhomes and other areas on the campus, consisting…
Highlands at Wyomissing Wyomissing, PA Beers + Hoffman was pleased to work on this new 52,077 sf Assisted Living Facility. 40-bed Facility, including one and two bedroom suites, welcome/reception area, fireplace lounge, formal and informal dining (cafe), activity room with state of the art audio and visual equipment, private dining room, indoor greenhouse, outdoor courtyards,…
Garden Spot Village New Holland, PA Beers + Hoffman lead the master planning for 4 story Independent Living Apartment Building, 27 Assisted Living Units, and 150 Cottages. Design included Central Community Building with Chapel, Gift Shop and Expansion for Skilled Nursing. Challenges: Sloping site Budget constraints Minimize institutional feel Solutions: Provided entrances at 3 levels…
Christman Memory Support Center at Spang Crest, A Luthercare Community Lebanon, PA Remember sitting on your front porch sipping lemonade and wandering through town to visit neighbors? This was the goal of the Christman Memory Support Center to provide supportive care to those with dementia through a safe and secure small town and familiar home-like atmosphere.…
Brookline Village Mifflintown, PA Brookline Village consists of several different buildings, serving multiple levels of care. Carved in to the hillside, PineCastle is a personal care facility (46,733 sf) with 42-units on two levels, provides memory support care, has enclosed exterior courtyard spaces, and is linked by a bridge to the existing kitchen facility. Intimate atmospheres were…
Cornwall Manor Cornwall, PA The latest Cornwall Manor Buckingham campus facility on this 85-acre “Ironmaster’s estate” of the Cornwall Iron Furnace is the three-story Carriage House (40,940 sf) with 18 spacious apartments featuring balconies/patios and five floor plans ranging from 900-1,500 sf. A dining/kitchen area expansion was also completed to Freeman Hall; and, the former carriage house/stable of…
Northwest Elementary School Lebanon, PA The 92,912 s.f. Northwest Elementary School facility is designed with a STEAM focus, as the building and curriculum will reinforce Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math themes. Labs for life science and technology are provided among the K-5 classrooms. And, with a courtyard layout, an educational pond feature is proposed for valuable life…
Lancaster Bible College Dormitory Lancaster, PA With enrollment increasing, over the past decade, the number of students at Lancaster Bible College has grown nearly two-fold, the need for more dorm space became urgent and a new dormitory for 110 students and 2 apartments for Resident Directors was envisioned. The first and most significant challenge was…
Lebanon High School Expansion Lebanon, PA With a distinctive original 1960s design of three round drums linked by glass corridors, a unique solution permitted expansion, provided updated flexible learning environments, and improved both accessibility and security measures – all while costing less than a new school. Promoting “21 st Century School Concepts” for future flexibility, renovations (220,009 sf) enlarged…
Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) – Lancaster Campus Lancaster, PA Renovation of the Welcome Center located at the Lancaster Campus of Harrisburg Area Community College to accommodate a new Welcome Center and Student Services Department. The work includes selective demolition and reconstruction of approximately 19,000 sf on the 1st floor within the main building, including modifications…
Cedar Crest High School | Cornwall Lebanon Athletic Building Cornwall, PA With a vibrant award-winning music program, the Cedar Crest High School facility had a significant need as the existing band room was well undersized for its growing marching band. Not only was the original 1,681 s.f. band room expanded to double its size floor-plan…
Lebanon Valley College Annville, PA Prior to renovations, the Lynch Technology Center suffered from poor circulation, inadequate lighting control, and inefficient use of space, lacking versatility. After removing built-in work stations, the space was reconfigured to provide a dynamic, comfortable environment. The latest furniture and technological components were used to create versatile group collaboration area. With improved efficiency, the college…
Cornwall Elementary School Cornwall, PA The design of Cornwall Elementary School began with the exterior transformation of the 1957 addition from bright yellow brick to a neutral colored EIFS facade. This change complimented the attached, beautiful stone building originally constructed as a high school in 1927. The additions and renovations to existing school facility totaled…
Harding Elementary School Lebanon, PA Built in 1918 as a high school, served as a junior high, and renovated in 1971 as an elementary school, this grand old building (104,000 s.f.) was upgraded to today’s educational and safety standards. With a tight urban setting, traffic flow was enhanced with a safer student drop-off “turning lane.”…
Faith Church Allentown, PA Faith Church is a large, and growing, Evangelical congregation. The three-story addition solved numerous space/programming issues for the church. A new secure nursery area is located adjacent to the largest worship space with children’s Christian education rooms on the floor above. The Youth program completes the top floor and permits the…
Bright Side Baptist Church Lancaster, PA Bright Side Baptist Church sits on a tight urban site. One vertically-designed building functions as two facilities the sacred sanctuary space (seating over 900) is both joined and separated from the community center. The Opportunities Center shares a gymnasium, banquet/stage area and classrooms with the church and provides the…
Highland Presbyterian Church Lancaster, PA Improved circulation was a crucial design gesture as a major new wing was added to the existing Highland Presbyterian church. A large well-lit lobby narthex connects all major components of the building and becomes a “market-place” for ministry tables. The addition (26,800 sf) and renovations (34,800 sf) unified the structure…
Fawn United Methodist Church Fawn Grove, PA The congregation at Fawn United Methodist Church engaged Beers + Hoffman for the sensitive reconstruction of a sanctuary & lobby addition (13,000 sf) to replace the original sanctuary destroyed by fire in 2005. While the massing of the steeple with a pair of gable roofs references the former…
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Lancaster, PA Needing both a larger sanctuary while also improving the connection between the congregation and the pastor were the impetus to the new addition (28,700 sf). A radial layout for the worship space was the successful solution. With a beautiful new pipe organ, state-of-the-art sound & lighting systems, and…