Cypress Park & Ride Wins Industry Award
Friday, February 13, 2009 2:36 PM
When our first Park & Ride garage opened in Cypress in 2007, many of you living in Cypress were excited to have convenient, covered parking that would soon be surrounded by restaurants and retail shops.
Today, those shops include Divine Wine Bar, Davina Chocolates, Schlotzsky's Deli, Cypress Dance Studio, Heritage Texas Properties, Stuart Title, Tuscan Sun Coffee, The Family Cajun Restaurant, Alpine Engineering, Quiltworks, plus a dental office and nail salon.
The metal industry has taken note of the Cypress Park & Ride facility now with a design award presented by the Metal Construction Association.
At its 2009 annual meeting in Palm Springs, Calif., the group honored its 2008 winners in five categories: overall excellence, commercial-industrial, municipal-institutional, roofing and residential.
In the roofing category, Cypress Village Station in Houston took top honors.
The station canopy and parking garage feature 16-inch wide, 24-guage Galvalume panels in a sandstone metallic color.
The roof was installed by PRC Roofing Co. Inc. of Houston. Architects were CDA Architects and New Quest Properties. The metal panels were chosen to help the project meet certification requirements of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a nonprofit group that helps builders make green buildings. The metal panels were also chosen to provide a maintenance-free facility.
"Thanks for inviting CDA to be a part of this job," wrote Ray A. Duerer, president of CDA Architects, in an e-mail to METRO. "We look forward to working on future METRO projects, as well as creating architectural solutions to these challenging retail/transit projects."
Click here to read more about the award.