ADOT
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What: Adaptive Reuse, Public-Private Partnership
Where: Flagstaff, AZ
When: 2019
More: 59,500-square-foot office, laboratory and maintenance facility
The Project
This award-winning adaptive reuse project (Best of NAIOP 2020) transformed a 27-year-old, 45,000-square-foot movie theater into a state-of-the-art 60,000-square-foot MVD office, laboratory and maintenance facility via an innovative public-private partnership.
The Problem
The Arizona Department of Transportation was facing an impossible task: how to revamp or relocate its 65-year-old Flagstaff headquarters without using any public funding? Plus, Flagstaff has implemented strict new construction standards to help fulfill its commitment to combating climate change.
The Solution
Vintage Partners devised a unique three-way, three-phase public-private partnership and land swap that allowed Vintage to adaptively reuse an old movie theater to create a new HQ for ADOT, move the theater into a new space at the local mall, and redevelop the old ADOT site into a mixed-use project, increasing city tax revenue, without raising taxes or using public funds.