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Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Redevelopment Project

The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom is seeking redevelopment as it reaches its end-of-life state. It has reached a point of general deterioration in contrast to its neighboring facilities, leading the town to seek total redevelopment for the 4.5-acre site. The Engineering Corp (TEC) is designing a redevelopment plan to revitalize the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, including mixed-use development, a state-of-the-art concert hall, hotel, gaming, restaurant and retail uses, as well as constructing a pedestrian-friendly environment with adequate parking and amenities. Services to be provided include a 45,000 square foot music venue, 50,000 square feet of charitable gaming space, 40,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, a 200-room boutique hotel, 100 condominiums, and a parking garage sufficient to accommodate 600 parking spaces. Five site design alternatives were developed by and critiqued by the Project Sponsor and Faculty Advisors. This feedback was used to correct issues in each of the five alternatives, and then combined into a singular preferred alternative. This preferred alternative is designed to be six floors high, with the first floor being 15 feet, second floor is 12 ft, and all subsequent floors above are set at a height of 10 feet. This sizing allows for tractor trailers and tour buses to pull through and park in the first floor of the garage, mitigating impacts on traffic through the area. Floor one is primarily dedicated to a shared lobby space for all uses to access, also providing pedestrian access to the garage. Floor two is dedicated primarily to hotel amenities, including the spa, gym, and conference center, as well as the second floor of the charitable gaming space and heightened ceiling of the music venue. Floors 3 to 6 are dedicated to the hotel and condos and their respective outdoor spaces, which are configured in an E-shaped design to provide maximum beach views, while keeping the hotel and condos separated. Following the site design, architectural layouts were developed following IBC 2021 guidelines, while also ensuring cohesion with the general aesthetics of the Hampton Beach community. With architectural layout developed, load combinations were determined, and the design of structural members within the parking structure on the site was developed, with prestressed concrete as the primary material. Means Over the most critical span, it was determined that a structural double tee section, a 12DT30, would be adequate to withstand all flexural, vertical-shear, and deflection requirements. This project is estimated to cost $147 million based on local construction materials sourced from RS Means Online.

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