Urban Outfitters opened a new space in Williamsburg Brooklyn this year called Space Ninety 8. This new mega store includes a roof top restaurant. To create the new concept store they gutted an old industrial building and used salvaged materials and a lot of blackened steel for a very unique look.
The 5 story structure is served by a commercial elevator but on the third floor there is one area with a half flight of stairs down and a half flight of stairs up to a mezzanine from the third floor elevator lobby requiring a vertical platform (wheelchair) lift to provide accessibility to those two split levels.
The area chosen for the lift required a basket of steel be created to suspend the lift runway over a space open to the second floor retail space below. That steel super structure was used to support the lift. The lift has it’s own enclosure in order to meet elevator safety codes so the lift and it’s enclosure frames had to be lowered into the steel basket and assembled in place.
Location
Credits
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Architect
David A. Levy and Associates
345 Springside Drive
Akron, Ohio 44333
330−666−6767 -
General Contractor
Blue Rock Construction, Inc.
1275 Glenlivet Drive, Suite 330
Allentown, PA 18106
610−481−9119 -
Steel Superstructure:
Johnston Products of Dallas
604 Jealouse Way
Cedar Hill, Texas 75104
469−272−7212 -
Steel Lift Enclosure Frames:
Pabst Enterprises/Equipment Co., Inc.
676 Pennsylvania Avenue
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
908−353−2880 -
Lift Installation
Handi-Lift, Inc.
730 Garden Street
Carlstadt, NJ 07072
201−933−0111
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