When complete, the renovated Inverness Country Club’s Tennis & Pickleball Complex is set to be one of the premier racquet facilities in the region.
Highlights include six brand-new pickleball courts, a fully renovated clubhouse, upgraded locker rooms, and expanded outdoor patio and lounge areas.
Designed to serve all ages, the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center brings sports, fitness, creativity, and technology together under one roof.
Funded through a partnership between FEMA the City, this 30,000 SF state-of-the-art facility stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and renewal after Hurricane Michael damaged the area in 2018.
With outdoor recreation areas, indoor basketball courts, community rooms, a fitness center, STEM lab, recording studio, culinary teaching kitchen, and arts space, the center is a destination for play, learning, and connection.
Chevrons in the exterior paneling, lobby light fixtures, furniture, and restroom tiles symbolize motion and Panama City’s forward progress.
With walkable neighborhood access and nearby public transit, the MLK Jr. Recreation Center is a central gathering place for Panama City as it enters its next chapter.
“Everything in this YMCA was built with purpose, on purpose.” — Terri Harvill, Chief Social Impact Officer, YMCA “I believe that other communities across the country will have other developments that look like this. But we know where the idea came from.” — Terri Harvill, Chief Social Impact Officer, YMCA
The renovation of the Northeast YMCA in Roebuck transformed the facility into a true community resource center.
Through partnerships with Christ Health Center, Impact Family Counseling, and Habitat for Humanity, the Northeast Community YMCA offers expanded services including wellness programs, pediatric care, family counseling, an early learning center, workforce training, and affordable housing.
“Everything in this YMCA was built with purpose, on purpose.”
— Terri Harvill, Chief Social Impact Officer, YMCA
The gym and adjacent multi-purpose room are flexible to accommodate a variety of fitness classes, games, and meetings.
From the exterior signage and color palette to the interior finishes and custom donor wall, each design element is durable, functional, and reflects the YMCA’s brand.
CCR provided architecture, interior design, and signage design services for this project.
Single-family homes built by Habitat for Humanity will surround the Northeast YMCA and create a purpose-built, walkable neighborhood.
Our team was excited to spend a day volunteering with Habitat for Humanity to help build one of the homes on-site.
“I believe that other communities across the country will have other developments that look like this. But we know where the idea came from.”
— Terri Harvill, Chief Social Impact Officer, YMCA
Photography by Omar Mohammad
Located within Cullman, Alabama’s 155-acre omnisports district, a new large-scale multisports complex now provides expansive space for indoor and outdoor community events.
The City of Cullman identified the need for a new flexible, multi-purpose venue after going through a recent growth spurt in sports tourism, community development, and local recreation event scheduling.
Our firm was brought on to design the development to fit the City’s needs and their budgeting constraints.
The new development is designed to host a variety of events, including large concerts, expositions, trade shows, and charity events. To manage several events at once, adaptability was a priority.
Its core includes an open gym with 8 basketball courts, 16 volleyball courts, and 6 pickleball courts with accompanying seating for spectators.
Supporting spaces include concession stands, 4 ballrooms, and 8 meeting spaces for events ranging from committee meetings to mass gatherings.
The gym, meeting spaces, and ballrooms were fitted with room partitions to accommodate events happening simultaneously.
The facility also houses a commercial kitchen, conference rooms, a director’s room, team rooms, and a large outdoor covered plaza, with 340+ parking spaces.
Designed for durability and adaptability, the OmniPlex will serve the Cullman community for generations.
Photography by Omar Mohammad
-->As part of a team of local architects, CCR worked under Kansas City-based Populous to transform a brutalist building from the 1970s into a clean, modern venue to host regional and national sports competitions, concerts, and events.
The major project components include a new entry plaza, new three-story lobby, and a complete interior renovation.
Our team replaced the arena’s original façade with a new three-story glazed lobby addition that faces the Birmingham skyline, fills the lobby with natural light, and invites visitors to the arena through a tree-lined entry plaza.
New stairs, elevators, and escalators in the lobby provide clear wayfinding and an expedited entry and exit process.
The Main Concourse renovation included opening it up to the seating bowl to enhance connectivity and wayfinding, incorporating new lighting and signage, and upgrading the concessions stands and restrooms to modern arena standards.
By creating a break in the original seating bowl, we were able to add two premium seating levels: the Suite Level with 12 private suites and the Club Level above. The Club Level can accommodate larger parties and provide an elevated viewing experience with nearby bar access.
The renovation has improved every step of the visitor experience and attracted a new generation of high-profile performers, sports competitions, and major regional and national events, and supports the upward trajectory of the city of Birmingham.
The Birmingham Wrestling Complex is comprised of a wrestling arena with spectator viewing areas, a central lobby, gift shop, concession stand, locker rooms and glass-paneled garage doors that establish a connection to the outdoors.
The outline of the central wrestling area is replicated throughout various elements of the interior, including toned shapes on the walls and the ring in the ceiling above the Schaatt Wrestling Gym entrance.
Reconfiguration of the original softball field produced additional space to sanction a new field house, concessions building, press box and regulation softball field for Samford University.
The buildings continue the Samford tradition of Georgian themed architecture with a subtle gesturing towards modernity.
The field house contains coaching offices and player locker rooms for both the softball and baseball teams surrounding an indoor hitting and pitching facility.
The project includes a gymnasium, exercise areas, indoor running track, exterior pool, locker rooms, child day care, classrooms, offices and group meeting rooms.
A variety of activity rooms organized around a central space allows toddlers, teenagers and adults to safely interact in shared spaces while also providing separate space with peers.
The renovated Community Center has become a hub for neighborhood gatherings, classes, and events. An architectural trellis clearly defines the new entrance with shadows and light.
Interior spaces including the community meeting room, offices, kitchen and maintenance shop have been updated, reconfigured and refreshed.
A new youth wing that serves as a computer classroom, activity center and host for after school programs for the children of Branscomb was expanded into the adjacent lot.
This project includes the addition of classrooms, exercise areas, locker rooms, kitchen, canteen, a climbing totem, an exterior pool, playing fields and a garden.
The climbing totem within the glass tower serves as a beacon for the city of Birmingham and as the focal point for two new developments: Park Place and Marconi Park.
