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Economic Growth By Design: Manassas 2024 Mid-Year Market Report

“Business locations are perpetually in high demand and Historic Downtown continues to be the cultural and commercial center for the Greater Manassas Region. The past six months have been no different.” ~ Historic Downtown Manassas 2024 Mid-Year Market Report Loveless Porter Architects continues to play a supporting role in the...

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Repost: Progress Continues at Route 7 Brewing

Progress continues for Loveless Porter Architect client Route 7 Brewing, soon to open in Ashburn, Virginia, as reported in The Burn: The new Route 7 Brewing coming to Loudoun County is making major progress and The Burn finally has more details — and some photos — to share about this exciting new...

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Ask an Architect: Design Your Home Bar Like a Pro

Adding or upgrading bars has become an increasingly popular renovation project with people spending more leisure time at home. Based on Loveless Porter Architect’s years of experience designing breweries, distilleries, and bars throughout Northern Virginia, we’ve crafted a recipe to help design your home bar like a pro. Plan a...

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LPA Selected to Design Northern Virginia’s First Hilton Tempo

Loveless Porter Architects is proud to work with Holladay Properties again, this time as the lead architecture firm on the Tempo by Hilton coming to the popular Farm Brew LIVE! Campus in Manassas, VA. We are blending Hilton’s exacting brand guidelines – created to deliver the highest level of guest...

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Trend Alert: Maximalism Urges “More is More” in Design

Embracing the Maximalist Trend: A Guide to Bold Design As architects, we like to stay on top of design trends. One we see taking the design world — and Pinterest — by storm, is maximalism. This decorating trend invites vibrant color and rich texture back into our homes and businesses....

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Bringing MacMillan Whiskey to Old Town Alexandria

Our latest restaurant client, MacMillan Spirit House in Old Town Alexandria, has caught the eye of the Washington Business Journal, which reported that: “Derek Anderson and Emma Hand hope to open MacMillan Spirit House by the end of the year at 500 Montgomery St. The roughly 3,800-square-foot space, including an...

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Designing a Lighthouse and a Dream in Chantilly

Loveless Porter is proud to have played a role in bringing the first Children’s Lighthouse Early Learning Schools™ to Virginia, serving as the architect for a soon-to-open location in Chantilly. Better yet, in doing so, we get to help a longtime Loudoun County couple achieve their dream of entrepreneurship. After signing...

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Opening a distillery or brewery? Plan early for long term success

By Sean Porter, RA | Loveless Porter Architects When it comes to craft distilleries and breweries, the equation is not as simple as “build it and they will come.” These spaces must simultaneously function as a production facility, warehouse, retail shop and gathering place. To successfully pull off this balancing...

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