Nemours Auto Court
HNA Hardscape Project Award Winner
Concrete Paver - Commercial - Less than 15,000 sf
Nemours Auto Court
Wilmington, Delaware
Pickering Valley Landscape, Inc.
The Historic Nemours Building sits in the heart of Wilmington Delaware's corporate business district. The mixed use building with retail and office space includes furnished apartments for weekly business travelers. For the past decade the building's main entrance was off the Tatnall Street plaza and overlooked due to a paved drop off and pick up circle on the 10th street side. With a commitment from Starbucks to sign a lease but contingent upon having off street parking, an opportunity arose for the building owner, The Buccini/Pollin Group, to redesign this small outdoor space. Approximately 985 tons of concrete, asphalt, and site soil were removed to a competent subgrade. Storm drains were removed and replaced with a new 40 x 6 x 3 foot deep rain garden structure. One of the rain garden's side walls was extended up to double as a feature wall cladded with 2 inch thick granite panels. An elaborate system of nyloplast risers and fittings were installed for storm overflow along with a Neenah Foundry powder coated trench drain. 800 lineal feet of new Scofield French gray colored curbing was installed with several flush curbs to transition from a concrete paver parking area to asphalt drives to clay paver aprons to the roadway. A bituminous set paver cross section was chosen for the parking area with a reinforced concrete base. The parking spots are placed in 45 degree herringbone in the limestone gray with the super black used to line the spots. The two distinctly different paver fields are separated by 20 inch wide soldier-sailor-soldier bands with the black and matrix colors. A single basalt black granite paver band extends from the building to the rain garden and wall feature with a concrete trough into the landscape filled with black Mexican beach cobble.
Nemours Auto Court
HNA Hardscape Project Award Winner
Concrete Paver - Commercial - Less than 15,000 sf
Nemours Auto Court
Wilmington, Delaware
Pickering Valley Landscape, Inc.
The Historic Nemours Building sits in the heart of Wilmington Delaware's corporate business district. The mixed use building with retail and office space includes furnished apartments for weekly business travelers. For the past decade the building's main entrance was off the Tatnall Street plaza and overlooked due to a paved drop off and pick up circle on the 10th street side. With a commitment from Starbucks to sign a lease but contingent upon having off street parking, an opportunity arose for the building owner, The Buccini/Pollin Group, to redesign this small outdoor space. Approximately 985 tons of concrete, asphalt, and site soil were removed to a competent subgrade. Storm drains were removed and replaced with a new 40 x 6 x 3 foot deep rain garden structure. One of the rain garden's side walls was extended up to double as a feature wall cladded with 2 inch thick granite panels. An elaborate system of nyloplast risers and fittings were installed for storm overflow along with a Neenah Foundry powder coated trench drain. 800 lineal feet of new Scofield French gray colored curbing was installed with several flush curbs to transition from a concrete paver parking area to asphalt drives to clay paver aprons to the roadway. A bituminous set paver cross section was chosen for the parking area with a reinforced concrete base. The parking spots are placed in 45 degree herringbone in the limestone gray with the super black used to line the spots. The two distinctly different paver fields are separated by 20 inch wide soldier-sailor-soldier bands with the black and matrix colors. A single basalt black granite paver band extends from the building to the rain garden and wall feature with a concrete trough into the landscape filled with black Mexican beach cobble.