Marquis Parking Garage
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The landmark 400,000-square-foot mixed-use development features seven floors, 264 apartments, first-floor retail, a green roof, and a 308-space parking deck. As the largest residential project in Easton's history, it required a construction strategy that could deliver speed, structural performance, and architectural cohesion. Precast concrete was selected for the two-story parking garage, which serves as the structural base for the five-story steel-framed apartment complex above.
The garage is wrapped on two sides with commercial space, the precast walls providing essential three-hour fire-rated separation between these areas. Two elevations are clad with cast-in ThinBrick to match the apartment façade, helping the garage visually disappear into the building and meet the local architectural board’s expectations for masonry articulation and urban integration.
Project Details
- Owner: Center City Investment Corp.
- General Contractor: North Star
- Erector: High Structural Erectors
- Engineer of Record: DCI Engineers
- Architect: BERNARDON
- Project Size: 50,225 ft2
- Precast Cost: $2.6 Million
- Project Cost: $4.2 Million
Awards
- 2026 PCI Design Award Honorable Mention All-Precast Concrete Parking Structure
Key Project Attributes
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Architectural Integration: Cast-in ThinBrick on precast walls matched the apartment façade, helping the garage blend seamlessly into the building and meet urban design standards.
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Speed and Coordination: Off-site precast fabrication and early producer involvement accelerated the schedule, while precise integration with steel and wood framing ensured smooth construction.
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Strength and Fire Safety: The precast garage provided the structural base for five stories above and delivered three-hour fire-rated separation between commercial spaces and the parking deck.
Complex Connections
One of the most complex aspects of the project was connecting the precast garage, the three-hour-rated steel-and-metal deck podium, the five-story wood-frame above, and a dropped-pool structure, all of which required precise alignment.
Additional challenges included installing continuous insulation between the precast and metal-stud walls, as well as designing insulation strategies for the garage roof to meet the differing thermal requirements of conditioned residential areas and open-air courtyards. The result is a highly coordinated, efficient, and visually cohesive development that sets a new standard for large-scale residential construction in the region.
Innovations & Accomplishments
The project successfully integrated a precast garage structure with a steel podium and five-story wood-frame construction above, including a dropped pool—an exceptionally complex coordination effort.
Achieving a seamless architectural blend, cast-in ThinBrick matched the apartment façade, helping the garage blend into the urban streetscape. The precast concrete producers' early involvement and concurrent development of shop drawings significantly accelerated the schedule and streamlined the construction process.
Demonstrating a high level of technical precision and design integration, the project met strict insulation and fire-rating requirements across different conditions.
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