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Avenue North Mixed Use Development

Owner/User: Delle Donne & Associates concept is to use the value of each tenancy to drive new
development on the balance of the site, creating a place
Location: Wilmington, Pennsylvania
where the entire site is driving value and attracting growth.
Design Statement: Spanning an 80-acre campus situated This goal is embodied in the form of a North-South avenue
along a major thoroughfare in northern Delaware, Avenue and an East-West avenue that engages and activates
North is a walkable, mixed-use redevelopment bringing existing buildings on-site by connecting them with new
commercial and residential amenities to the suburban construction containing retail and apartments. This results
communities of Wilmington. Avenue North is a “live- in a combination of functions that are all intertwined with
work-play” community created to cultivate a centralized one another to create a vibrant destination that increases
environment for professionals who want to live close to the value of all buildings, uses, and users on the site.
restaurants and retailers, enjoy ample recreation space, and
bike or walk to work rather than commute by car. Completed projects at Avenue North designed by
Bernardon include a seven-level parking garage (pictured
Located just north of the City of Wilmington and five right) adjacent to an existing office building. With thin brick
minutes from I-95, Avenue North is situated in a premier embedded into its exterior and a corner entrance clad in
location to attract a variety of tenants ranging from metal, the garage is designed to relate to the vernacular of
cutting edge corporations to exquisite restauranteurs to the site. The vertical stacking of the garage helps minimize
young professionals and empty nesters alike. On a site the site impact of its 1,373 parking spaces. The project also
that contains the headquarters for one of the largest includes charging stations for electric vehicles.
corporations in Delaware, the goal of Bernardon’s design

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