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Clearwater-based Klar and Klar Architects
has unveiled plans for Surgical Pathology Laboratories’
14,000 s.f. facility, which is expected to be the Tampa
Bay-area’s largest solar-assisted commercial building.
Located in Pinellas Park at 66th Street
North and 84th Avenue North, the $3.5 million facility will feature
photo-voltaic roof panels that will supply about a third of the
building’s power, according to Steve Klar, AIA, who
co-founded and co-owns the firm with Roberta Klar, AIA. Moreover,
all water in the building will be solar heated.
The building will feature Florida-modern
architecture with concrete-block construction, a flat roof and
walls of windows. Inside, modern design elements will continue with
exposed bar joists and a color palette of white, black and gray
hues.
Surgical Pathology Laboratories, which
analyzes biopsy and surgical resection specimens, will occupy about
9,000 s.f. of this facility. The remaining office space is
available for lease.
Construction should begin early this
summer with completion slated in about a year.
Founded in 1990, Klar and Klar Architects
has created diverse architectural and interiordesign concepts for
corporations, home builders and private individuals throughout the
local, regional and national markets.
The firm has completed a wide range of
projects including the elaborately themed Bally’s Park Place
Casino in Atlantic City, NJ; the Gaylord Palms Resort and
Convention Center in Kissimmee; medical buildings that include the
Columbia Diabetes Educational Center in Clearwater and the Pierce
100, a beachfront residential high-rise in Clearwater.
Klar and Klar also has designed executive
and estate residences ranging in size from 2,000 to more than
13,000 s.f. of living space, and costing from $200,000 to more than
$3.5 million.
For more information, call Klar and Klar
at 727-799-5420, or visit klarklarcom.
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