Bruce Brooks
A Pennsylvania architecture firm has staked a claim in Richmond.
Noelker and Hull, headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, opened a local office on Dec. 2 with architect Bruce Brooks at the helm.
The office is located in the Buggy Factory building in Shockoe Slip at 1421 Lombardy Alley.
“Richmond has been a target market for a while,” said Tracey Gould, a Noelker and Hull spokeswoman. “The Richmond office is a strategic location to bolster our healthcare presence initially, and eventually our higher education presence.”
Brooks joined the firm in early 2015, previously working with locally based Odell Associates. He has worked in Richmond for the past 24 years.
Noelker and Hull already has about 10 healthcare clients in the Richmond area, Gould said, though she declined to name any.
Brooks has designed projects in the past for Bon Secours, University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University health systems, among others. He was unavailable for comment.
Noelker and Hull has been considering the additional office for about a year, Gould said. Founded in 1957, the firm has only expanded once before, into Frederick, Maryland, though Gould said it has clients all over the mid-Atlantic region.
“Richmond also made sense from a target market perspective,” she said. “It puts us geographically in a good place between Southwest Virginia and the Interstate 81 corridor.”
The firm plans to expand its Richmond office soon. It is currently recruiting two new employees – an architect and a project designer or project intern. Firm-wide, Noelker and Hull has a headcount of about 50.
Gould said the company hopes to bring six staff members to Richmond in the near future; she plans to relocate herself from North Carolina.
Bruce Brooks
A Pennsylvania architecture firm has staked a claim in Richmond.
Noelker and Hull, headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, opened a local office on Dec. 2 with architect Bruce Brooks at the helm.
The office is located in the Buggy Factory building in Shockoe Slip at 1421 Lombardy Alley.
“Richmond has been a target market for a while,” said Tracey Gould, a Noelker and Hull spokeswoman. “The Richmond office is a strategic location to bolster our healthcare presence initially, and eventually our higher education presence.”
Brooks joined the firm in early 2015, previously working with locally based Odell Associates. He has worked in Richmond for the past 24 years.
Noelker and Hull already has about 10 healthcare clients in the Richmond area, Gould said, though she declined to name any.
Brooks has designed projects in the past for Bon Secours, University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University health systems, among others. He was unavailable for comment.
Noelker and Hull has been considering the additional office for about a year, Gould said. Founded in 1957, the firm has only expanded once before, into Frederick, Maryland, though Gould said it has clients all over the mid-Atlantic region.
“Richmond also made sense from a target market perspective,” she said. “It puts us geographically in a good place between Southwest Virginia and the Interstate 81 corridor.”
The firm plans to expand its Richmond office soon. It is currently recruiting two new employees – an architect and a project designer or project intern. Firm-wide, Noelker and Hull has a headcount of about 50.
Gould said the company hopes to bring six staff members to Richmond in the near future; she plans to relocate herself from North Carolina.