HOW MUCH LAND DO I NEED? Over the last 2 years, Hover has sent out over 500 conceptual site plans. We’ve seen our fair share of ½ acre PAD sites, even more 1 acre greenfield sites, and the occasional 50 acre parcel looking for help with master planning. We’ve looked...
3 Design Features To Make Your Carwash Stand Out If you drive past ten carwashes today, nine of them will look almost exactly the same. Same tunnel. Same walls. Same layout. And that’s a problem, because when everything looks the same, the only thing customers...
The Development Timing Trap (Infographic) Why Waiting Costs More Than Borrow Now In commercial development, timing can feel like everything. Interest rates go up, interest rates go down, and every headline seems to suggest that the smart move is to wait for the right...
Episode 5: What is a Preapp Meeting? In the first few episodes of this series, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on site selection and conceptual site planning. So what happens next? While you might be chomping at the bit to get started with planning and...
Episode 4: Greenfields, Brownfields, Infills - Oh My! In commercial development, Greenfield doesn’t always mean easy. Brownfield doesn’t always mean dangerous. And infill doesn’t always mean fast. These assumptions drive a lot of site decisions. And they’re often...
You Are Cordially Invited... to the most prestigious, highly anticipated, and rigorously competitive social engagement of the season. The Hover Architecture Holiday Party. Black tie optional. Competitive spirit required. On an unusually warm December afternoon in...
Episode 3: How to Get Ahead of Offsite Improvements You think you’ve found the perfect site… until the city drops a five-page list of offsite improvements you never budgeted for. Suddenly you’re staring at tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of dollars in...
Every year we create hundreds of drawings, sketches, studies, and site plans. Some are fast napkin concepts and some are fully developed layouts with every detail dialed in. Each one teaches us something about the way people build and the way projects move from an...
Episode 2: Third Time's a Charm Some projects test your patience. Others test your process. And every once in a while, you get a project that tests both. Today, I want to share a story. It’s about a developer who’s been put through the ringer and has not given up....
There are times when architecture transcends form, when a building becomes a séance between the living and the forgotten. In the past decade, a new movement has emerged from the shadows. Critics have named it Macabre Modernism, a design philosophy that rejects the...
