Reading MA – The renovation and expansion of the Honda Gallery located in Reading has been successfully completed. BKA Architects, Inc. of Brockton provided the design services, and Senate Construction Corporation of Shirley was the general contractor.
BKA Architects was asked to transform the existing buildings situated on a landfill site into a facility that would meet the requirements of the prototype for a Honda dealership and incorporate the Gallery’s own requirements.
The existing two-story, 20,000sf showroom building was renovated, and the existing service building demolished in order to allow for the construction of a new, separate, two-story 31,000sf facility that would house a state-of-the-art Service Department with 32 service bays, parts and customer areas.
One fundamental challenge was the site itself. Geopiers, or compacted cylinders of earth, were hammered into earth to provide support and stability. Other site planning constraints that required careful consideration and coordination included a 40 foot sewer easement near the West side of the planned service building
