Working with the City of Long Beach to Improve Processes
We’ve always worked really hard at M. Grisafe Architects to maintain great relationships with the cities in which we work, including Long Beach, Signal Hill, Orange, Irvine, and the surrounding cities. We are knowledgeable and mindful of building codes and regulations and always keep safety in mind when we design. This goes a long way […]
Treating Clients as Members of our Team Creates Inspiring Outcomes
At M. Grisafe Architects, it is our aim to be relational, not transactional, in the way we do business. What does that mean exactly? To us, that means we treat our clients as a member of our team, rather than just consumers. We love involving our clients throughout the design process. When clients are willing […]
Benefiting the Community and Connecting With the Right Clients
In my last blog post, I talked about developing a defined identity and a clear vision for our company in 2015. Since that last post, Businessing Magazine, a national online publication dedicated to small business owners and entrepreneurs, interviewed me for an article about the process of discovering and communicating your business identity, and the […]
2015 Goals and Our Company Identity
Recently, a friend of mine introduced me to his commercial real estate agent. I was grateful for the introduction, knowing he could be a good source for future work. At our meeting over lunch, the Realtor asked one of those questions that is impactful not because of it’s profundity, but because of it’s timing. “So, […]
Memorial Garden of Life Project at Saint Cornelius Church in Long Beach
We were honored to be involved with the Memorial Garden of Life project, a garden that sits in front of Saint Cornelius Church in the city of Long Beach, California. Earlier this year we presented the concept and discussed the project in our blog. We wanted to share photos of the completed garden, some insights […]
Commercial Tenant Improvement Project: Suite Beauty Salon
Photos by Marc Tarlton Photography Our latest commercial tenant improvement project to open to the public is Suite Beauty Salon, a 4,300 s.f. commercial space in the City of Orange. The tenants took over an abandoned Aaron Brothers art store and were looking to create an industrial feeling space that had the warmth of a spa. With […]
Beauty in Architecture and in Giving, Mark Grisafe Receives Chai Volunteer Award from Long Beach AJCC
We are pleased to share some news that makes the whole M Grisafe architecture design team proud. Our owner, Mark Grisafe, recently received the Chai Award for outstanding voluntary service from the Alpert Jewish Community Center of Long Beach. Mark received the award on September 7th at the center’s annual community-wide meeting brunch, attended by […]
Memorial Garden of Life: A Special Project Shows How Listening to Clients Brings the Best Results
Recently, the M Grisafe architecture team, along with Gallagher Construction, Minanda Landscape and Spire Structural Engineers made possible the creation of a Memorial Garden of Life, dedicated to life and to all those who grieve the loss of children and the loss of the unborn. We were honored to be involved in this meaningful project […]
Increased Regulation Doesn’t Have to Mean Compromise on Design
You may have missed it, but on June 30th of this year city and county buildings around the state were abuzz with activity. Architects and engineers packed local building departments to submit projects on behalf of their clients before the July 1st code change. On that day the new energy code in the state of […]
Visualization Tools for Commercial and Residential Architecture Design
I have heard people talk about transformational experiences; The first time they got a laugh for telling a joke they knew that they wanted to be onstage as a comedian, or the first time they boarded an airplane they knew they wanted to be a pilot. Though not nearly as glamourous, one of my early […]