"The Soda Fountain Building is a much-loved institution that has served the neighborhood for generations. Although not a legally designated landmark, it is certainly a community landmark.

Accordingly, it was important to keep the building, and do so in a way that honored its status in the community. As such, one of the essential architectural issues became how to combine a 2-story mixed-use building designed for the 21st century - and to achieve a unified, architecturally harmonious development."