{"id":55931,"date":"2019-11-04T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retrofitmagazine.com\/?p=55931"},"modified":"2019-11-05T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:15:12","slug":"a-beverage-distribution-facilitys-update-provides-distinction-between-public-and-private-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrofitmagazine.com\/a-beverage-distribution-facilitys-update-provides-distinction-between-public-and-private-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beverage Distribution Facility\u2019s Update Provides Distinction Between Public and Private Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The renovation of Maletis Beverage, a family-owned\nbeverage distribution business on a 9-acre Swan Island property in Portland,\nOre., began as an extensive redesign of the company\u2019s 24,000-square-foot administrative\noffices. During the course of the project, Portland-based architecture firm\nHolst\u2019s scope expanded to include an 18,500-squarefoot cold-storage warehouse\naddition, extensive landscaping and sitework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maletis Beverage\u2019s employees had been working in their\nexisting offices since 1993. The spaces were outdated, disjointed and cramped\u2014and\nnot reflective of the company\u2019s long history of local industry leadership and continued\ngrowth. Company representatives wanted to bring focus and organization to their\ndiverse range of workspaces, which were an inefficient mix of public and\nprivate spaces with intermingled, ill-defined departments all on one floor.\nBecause of this mix, the public would often wander into private areas. Maletis Beverage\nreps also wanted showpiece spaces that would continue to attract local and\ncraft brewers, as well as expand the company\u2019s reach into other markets, like\ncider and wine. Aesthetically, they hoped for an industrial feel that fit the\ncharacter of their work and their industrial location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n