TFMoran Provides Services for SNHU Six-Story Parking Facility

Rendering of Langer Parking; view from River and I-293 / courtesy Built-Form LLC

Manchester, NH – TFMoran provided survey, civil/site engineering, structural engineering, permitting, and landscape architecture services for a new six-story parking facility. Once complete, it will provide nearly 1,700 parking spaces in the southern end of the millyard area. This new precast concrete structure, located at the corner of South Commercial Street and Line Drive, will provide parking for Southern New Hampshire University’s online program and administrative offices housed in the adjacent Langer Place mill.

Bordered by the east bank of the Merrimack River, Line Drive, South Commercial Street, and the existing Langer mill, there was limited open space to accommodate this large parking structure. Since the garage will be replacing an existing surface parking lot serving the Langer mill, temporary accommodation of existing traffic and parking needs and maintaining access to the mill during construction all must be accommodated by construction manager Harvey Construction. Improvements to traffic flow patterns along South Commercial Street were also incorporated into the project,

Rendering of Langer Parking: view from Hilton Garden Inn/courtesy Built-Form LLC

Project architects Built-Form, LLC designed the parking facility to complement the historic and modern structures of the surrounding neighborhood, with a traditional brick masonry façade reminiscent of the historic mills, with contemporary vertical glass elements in the corners. The west façade, overlooking the Merrimack River, will feature perforated metal decorative panels with embossed images, providing a unique and striking visual effect as seen from I-293 across the river.

Situated directly across the street from Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, home of Minor League Baseball’s New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and the Hilton Garden Inn, the building will present an attractive and interesting addition to the area.

Harvey Construction is scheduled to break ground on this project in the spring of 2018, with an anticipated completion in late 2019.