Commercial Projects

Tesseract Middle High School
Phoenix, AZ

The Tesseract School project consisted of nine acres with three new buildings for the first phase of the site and future building pads, utility routing, and parking lot additions. The site had neighborhood opposition due to the rezoning of one acre residential to a commercial site. CVL helped facilitate several information sessions to ease neighborhood concerns.

Red Rock High School
Sedona, AZ

Red Rock High School was a two-phase hillside project that included three new buildings with additional play parks, parking lots, tennis courts, and storm water channel routing. CVL completed paving, grading, water, sewer, storm water pollution prevention plans, on site drainage reports and an offsite hydrological study for the surrounding washes and alluvial fans from the Southern Mountains. This project required comprehensive coordination with all facets of the design team and regulators, ranging from the Architect to the City Engineers.

Big Park Community School
Sedona, Yavapai County AZ

Big Park School was a single design phase, 15-acre project that included an extensive hydrology study that coordinated with and supplemented an active regional Yavapai County study. The school site is located on top of three historical washes that converge into a culvert
system, resulting in a 120-inch storm drain pipe outlet. The project site is considered hill side development. To help alleviate cost for the school district, no retaining walls were utilized in the design. CVL provided all necessary construction documents for permits and RFI’s.

Arizona Mills Mall
Tempe, Arizona

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This $200 million project consisted of 115-acres at the intersection of I-10 and US-60 in Tempe. It contains 1.5 million square feet of leasable space  with 13 anchor stores, including JC Penney’s, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, an IMAX theater and a Harkins 25-screen movie theater.

The site required an integrated drainage / retention system consisting of a centralized retention basin and numerous detention basins on the parking lot.  One of  the site’s most challenging issues was that of developing a single-level mall structure on a site that sloped approximately 30 feet from north to south.  This grade differential was engineered with a minimal amount of retaining walls by utilizing parking lot/street grades and landscaped slopes in setback areas.

In conjunction with the Arizona Mills, Coe & Van Loo provided plans for an improvement district, administered by the City of Tempe, which included the outer loop road of the mall, three entrance roads and an exit road with a  bridge.

Coe & Van Loo’s landscape plan for the parking lot created the effect of a field of trees instead of islands of trees.  This plan not only increased the number of trees, but it also increased the number of parking spaces on the site.