Retail

Trusted Teams. Retail Expertise. Developer Mindset. National Partnerships. Proven Success!

Retail development is a significant land use in virtually every community. From neighborhood strip malls, auto dealerships, gas stations and mixed-use developments, it is a competitive market and often complicated process. From navigating due diligence and site availability, to zoning ordinances, public hearings and the permitting process, commercial developments are often faced with time-consuming roadblocks that can affect a project’s speed to market.

With national resources across multiple disciplines, Bowman’s agile and integrated teams have a keen understanding of marketplace trends and are experts in providing value-based solutions to help expedite time lines, minimize costs, reduce oversight, and navigate even the toughest of municipalities to maximize the potential of the land. We focus on results and provide our clients with peace of mind by exceeding expectations and providing a turn-key experience from planning, design and on through construction.

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Expertise

Big/Small Box Retail

Big and Small Box Retail accounts make up one of the largest segments of the retail market sector. With more than 3,000 projects to our name, Bowman can help navigate every aspect of your project from due diligence to zoning, permitting, and managing the entire plan to build construction. Trusted relationships include:

  • Walmart
  • Costco
  • Kohl’s
  • Lowe’s Home Improvement
  • Publix Super Markets
  • Auto Zone
  • Family Dollar
  • Chase Bank

QSR/Restaurants

In the past decade, QSR (Quick Serve Restaurants) have grown in mass popularity by offering quick and affordable food options to diners. These types of establishments now fill every corner of the country and with its incredible growth, is a dominant player in the U.S. foodservice industry. Bowman has completed more than 600 projects for clients like:

  • Chick-Fil-A
  • Chipotle
  • Culvers
  • Dairy Queen
  • Whataburger
  • Wendy’s
  • McDonald’s

C-Stores/Fueling Stations

More people visit a C-Store (Convenience Store) each day than any other kind of retail location making it an essential business to serve our ever-growing population. Bowman’s retail experts have completed more than 750 C-Store/Fueling Station projects to date and have offered insight, guidance, and engineering expertise through the land development process to clients such as:

  • 7-Eleven
  • Circle-K
  • WaWa
  • Parker’s Kitchen
  • Murphy’s Express
  • Friendly Express
  • RaceWay

Program Management

These “rinse & repeat” projects are a specialty in which Bowman has excelled, facilitating design, permitting, and construction on time and on budget. Involved with regional and national brand chains, Bowman has designed and built over 1,000 program projects for clients like:

  • Starbuck’s
  • Circle K
  • CVS
  • Walmart
  • Sam’s Club
  • Walgreen’s

Experience

Royal Farms Convenience Stores

Various Locations, VA

Bowman has been contracted by Royal Farms in providing site/civil engineering for the construction of new convenience stores and gas stations located across Virginia. Bowman has provided due diligence and site layout and design for each of the stores.

Environmental Surveying & Subsurface Utility Services

Various locations, NM, TX

Our team has provided surveying and subsurface utility consultation services to the environmental sector throughout our years of business. With the continued importance of environmental compliance our services have expanded throughout New Mexico and surrounding states.

Checkers Restaurant Vehicle Queuing Study

Atlantic County, NJ

Our firm conducted a field observation/evaluation of the physical and operational characteristics of the vehicle queue lanes at an existing Checkers facility in the South Jersey area.

Bordentown Hotel and Car Wash

Burlington County, NJ

Our team was retained to perform traffic engineering and highway design services in support of the 128-room, four-story hotel and car wash facility along US Route 206 in Bordentown Township. We prepared the project traffic impact study, highway access permit plans in support of site plan approval by the Township and Access Permit approval by NJDOT.

Miromar Outlets

Estero, FL

Miromar Outlets is situated on a 75-acre parcel located north of Corkscrew Road, between I-75 and Ben Hill Griffin Parkway. The project is a portion of the Timberland and Tiburon DRI, and is zoned CPD with 700,000 sg. ft. of building area approved. Miromar Outlets features more than 140 top designers and brand name outlets, plus restaurants, banks, a gas station and the main offices for Miromar Development Corporation.

Coconut Point

Estero, FL

Bowman helped to bring this unique concept of managing urban living with retail shopping to Southwest Florida. Our team provided site/civil engineering, survey, landscape architecture and construction phase services for the project – the largest of its kind in the United States.

Costco, Boca Congress Center

West Palm Beach

A traffic impact analysis was completed for the proposed amendment. The site included a 144,140 sq. ft. Costco warehouse, as well as a Costco gas station with 12 fueling positions. The amendment includes the addition of eight (8) additional fueling positions.

Dutch Chocolate Shop

Los Angeles, CA

Our 3D laser scanning team used the latest in laser scanning technology to document every facet of the ornate interior, and used the data to compile a unified point cloud. The point cloud captures the surfaces of the room in three dimensional space.

AutoZone

North Carolina, South Carolina & Virginia

For the last eight years, our North Carolina team has been awarded over 60 contracts spanning across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia to provide civil / site engineering services. While each project had its own set of challenges, the team maintained consistency while exceeding the client’s expectations and staying within budget.

Sam’s Xpress

North Carolina & Virginia

This growing high-end car wash gas station chain is headquartered in Matthews, North Carolina. The first location opened on December 3, 2012, in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Since then, Sam’s Xpress has successfully opened multiples locations, and Bowman has been a trusted partner to expand into eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia providing civil / site engineering.

Starbucks

Various Locations, NC & SC

Partnered with the developers to assist this American coffee company chain with expanding its worldwide locations into new areas of North and South Carolinas. The project included stand-alone and strip mall locations addressing civil and site complexities around drive-thrus, parking accommodations and outdoor seating.

Panera Bread

Durham, NC

Partnering with a developer for Panera Bread Company, the project team has helped expand their 2,000+ store locations into Durham, North Carolina. This challenging project included design on an outparcel within an existing office park by adding the store, a drive-thru, an outdoor patio area and an internal walkway plan within the business park.

One Loudoun

Ashburn, VA

Bowman provided the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services for a 500,000 sq. ft. mixed-use entertainment destination development located in Loudoun County, Virginia. The project included a new downtown with a plaza, fountain, movie theater, retail, offices and major grocer. Bowman also designed the main streetscape lighting and power.

Lowe’s Home Improvement

Various Locations, FL

Bowman provides a variety of engineering, survey and consulting services for home improvement warehouses, including project management and construction services. The typical site is 14 to 30 acres, with approximately 180,000 sq. ft. of retail space.

Walgreens

Various Locations, AZ, MD, VA

Bowman has designed more than 20 Walgreen’s stores in Arizona, Maryland, and Virginia. Services provided include complex engineering designs, surveying, due diligence, feasibility studies, zoning and entitlement services, construction drawings, landscape architecture, and construction administration.

Whole Foods Rooftop Solar

Various Locations, FL

Bowman provided surveying services for six Whole Foods Markets sites across Florida. Bowman prepared a topographic survey to provide the basis for the final array layout. Bowman recorded the dimensions of the roof inside of the parapets; the height of the parapet off of the roof deck every 20 feet or where vertical changes occurred.

WaWa

Various Locations, FL, GA, VA

Engineering services for over 50 WaWa projects. Services include entitlements and development of strategic plans for market-driven initiatives. Also provided representation at public hearings and workshops, technical assistance for prototype stores, Chapter 527 TIA Reports, traffic impact studies, etc.

The Mall at Short Hills

Millburng, NJ

Bowman provided its core planning and civil design to design the 50,000 sq. ft. expansion of a high-end existing mall and parking structure. Design services included rerouting of existing utilities to accommodate the new parking deck, layout of a new restaurant pad site and integration of deck expansion to the existing site facilities.

Starbucks

Various Locations, US

Bowman’s partnership with Starbucks began in 2013 and has since grown into becoming one of their preferred civil engineers. Our teams work closely with management to produce site development and construction management plans for new stores across multiple states.

Sam’s Club Stores/Fueling Stations

Various Locations, CO, FL, GA, MD, SC, VA

Bowman has worked on multiple Sam’s Club Store and Fueling Station projects throughout the United States, providing engineering, planning, surveying, and environmental due diligence studies. The scope also included underground utilities, erosion & sediment control and drainage plans.

Parker’s Kitchen

Charleston, SC

Bowman provided site, utility, drainage and stormwater design, as well as rezoning and full permitting services for new ground-up sites in the Charleston SC market. Permitting was conducted with applicable Local, State and Federal agencies. The stores are approx. 5,000 sq. ft. and sites range from 3-6 acres.

Promenade at Castle Rock

Castle Rock, CO

Bowman delivered civil engineering design services for the 177-acre Promenade project in the Town of Castle Rock, which is one of the largest community center developments in the country.

Kanner Crossing

Martin County, FL

Bowman provided civil engineering and surveying services for this project. The design and permitting included parking lots, driveways, stormwater management system, potable water distribution system and wastewater collection/transmission system. Bowman provided construction observation services and certification of the various permits received from the required regulatory agencies.

Culver’s

Various, SE

Bowman currently works with Culver’s to help expand their footprint in Florida and throughout the Southeast market. Bowman’s retail experts work closely with the owners to provide conceptual site planning, site development plans, civil construction documents, site entitlement, permitting and construction management.

Closter Plaza

Closter, NJ

Bowman provided a multi-faceted planning, analysis, and design scheme to redevelop a declining 200,000 sq. ft. community shopping center. The team was challenged to create a more pedestrian friendly design all while providing adequate vehicle site access. Bowman also provided the Site Design, Surveying, and Local, County and State Permitting for the project.

Chinese Cultural Center

Phoenix, AZ

Bowman provided professional design and platting services for a 30-acre cultural theme center. The team was responsible for the layout and design of public infrastructure including roads, utilities and underground stormwater retention.

Circle K

Various Locations, USA

Bowman has partnered with Circle K on multiple sites throughout the US to provide site planning and design for their convenience store, gas station and truck stop developments. Services provided include site, utility and drainage and stormwater management design, permitting and rezoning services for new ground-up sites as well as raze and rebuild sites. Permitting was with Cities, Counties, NRCS, EPD and DOT.

Chick-fil-A

Various Locations, USA

Chick-fil-A partners with Bowman to provide civil engineering and survey services for new stores across the southeast. Services include site planning, utility design, drainage and grading design, as well as ALTA surveys and topographic and boundary surveys. Bowman also provides permitting services. Building sizes are typically around 5,000 sq. ft. and site sizes range from less than an acre to three acres.

Caliber Collision

Various Locations, USA

The Caliber Collision-Bowman relationship is a national program which covers four states. Bowman provides initial ALTA and design survey services for the development of new centers and engineering services including Special Use Permit preparation and processing, and planning document processing and approvals. Also prepares full construction documents.

BB&T

Blue Ash, OH

Bowman was responsible for preparation of topographic survey, coordination with field crew, preparation of Special Use Permit (SUP) application and supporting documents including conceptual plans and exhibits for Plan Commission meeting and public hearing, preparation of construction documents including landscape plans, utilities coordination, coordination and obtainment of permit, and construction administration.

American Furniture Warehouse

Glendale, AZ

Bowman provided a combination full scope development services starting with the initial survey, through design, and ultimate construction support. The team delivered engineering design services to including boundary verification, topographic analysis, and site improvements. The project required extensive coordination with local and state authorities during the design and permitting processes.

Walmart

Various Locations, MD, FL, SC, GA

To date, Bowman has provided more than $56M in consulting services for over 500 Walmart stores across the country. These projects typically include a new building and parking lot and Bowman is generally responsible for designing all onsite utilities, grading and erosion control, coordination with adjacent land owners, and facilitating city approvals.

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