Gorove/Slade Associates, Inc.

Recently Completed Work

The National Cathedral Parking

Gorove Slade Associates has consulted to the National Cathedral on traffic and parking matters for the past 15 years. We are currently helping the Cathedral to fulfill a resolution to develop a self-sustaining parking system within the next 5 years. A Comprehensive Parking Master Plan is under development and four sites have been selected for potential implementation of underground parking facilities. These parking garages will be designed to have no visual impact on the sacred and historic architecture and landscape of the Cathedral Close. These parking facilities may also accommodate for tour buses that bring 500,000 tourists to the Cathedral every year.

Federal Agency Security Planning and Design

G/SA is traffic consultants with teams that are developing security perimeter facilities for National Institutes of Health, the United State Department of Transportation new headquarters building, the Suitland Federal Center, and the Goddard Space Flight Center. This work includes using traffic simulation to test the workability of new gate inspection facilities for vehicles, and the design of secured visitor entry portals, and commercial vehicle inspection facilities.

Construction Traffic Operations and Management

G/SA is assisting general contractors with complex traffic operational plans for major construction projects. This planning and engineering work includes development of temporary parking for employees in swing space, truck routing planning, truck marshalling yard planning, truck signing plans, temporary traffic control devices including traffic signals, and in some case truck inspection facilities where national security is a factor. The major projects that G/SA is engaged in include the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, the New US Census Headquarters Building at the Suitland Federal Center, the new SW Quadrant Dormitories and Transportation Center on the George Washington University Campus, and the new Visitor's Center at the US Capital Building.

Turning Stone Casino/Resort

The Turning Stone Casino/Resort, Verona, NY is owned and managed by the Oneida Nation. This Native American facility provides a regional and local recreational destination that contributes to economy of the Oneida people and the local community. The Oneida Nation has undertaken a major improvement and expansion of the Casino Resort that includes a 5,100 seat event center, a 580 room hotel tower plus an all suites 100 room hotel , four golf courses, a driving range and a club house that will accommodate seating for 400 and the addition of a 2500 car parking garage. Also included is a major upgrading of the grounds and internal road system.

Gorove/Slade Associates teamed with and under contract to EDSA, landscape architects, Brennan, Beer, Gorman, architects and Bertino and associates, construction management undertook assignments to address the traffic and parking planning aspects of this work . Work tasks included traffic planning related to garage configuration, roadway design parking fields, hotel and casino entry configuration, service and bus access and bus and shuttle bus routing. An additional assignment included out parcel planning including the traffic aspects of a remote employee lot.

Chicago Premium Outlets, Aurora, Illinois

Chicago Premium Outlets is one of the 62 signature shopping centers owned and operated by Chelsea Property Group and the Simon Property Group. This center comprised of 100 outlet stores or 435,000 leasable square feet is located at the intersection of I-88 and Farnsworth Avenue in Aurora, Illinois. Gorove/Slade Associates role has been to provide the traffic planning aspects of this development and the documentation to help gain the approval of the site access system for this center. This process required significant interaction with the city officials and the Illinois Department of Transportation to gain concurrence on the configuration of the site access system the placement of traffic signals and the relationship of the site access roads with the I-88 Toll road off ramp.

Gorove/Slade Associates tasks included the preparation of a traffic impact study, the planning of the traffic elements of site access and circulation, external roadway configuration, toll road access analyses and participation with the public agencies to gain access approval. These studies included an analyses of the regional implications of adding a new interchange at Iola road and the potential for reducing the traffic demand at the Farnsworth interchange. Studies were also undertaken to determine the access configuration for two hotel across from the site access drive fronting Farnsworth Avenue so that the access system would accommodate highway truck turning maneuvers.

Shamrock Business Park, Painesville, Ohio

Shamrock Business Park, developed by the Forest City Land Group is a multi-land use complex consisting of 940,600 sf retail/commercial, 804 dwelling units, 100 acres office /industrial and other public amenities. The development of this site was contested by the adjacent city of Mentor because access to the site intersected with Heisley Road in Mentor and their concerns regarding the potential impacts of the development. Finding a solution that permitted access to this site was made complicated by the Mentor City requirements that there be no degradation of traffic level of service as the result of the development.

Gorove/Slade associates developed a number of alternatives for access that would satisfy the access needs and participated in meetings with the city that resulted in the selection of a system that met the City and development requirements. The approval process is ongoing and Gorove/Slade Associates is providing technical support to the interaction of the developers with the state to secure appropriate improvements to the adjacent highway.

Host Marriott, Orlando World Center, Orlando Florida

Host Marriott operates the Orlando World Center in Orlando. Retained Gorove/Slade Associates to undertake a due diligence type parking analyses to determine the implications of adding 115,000 SF of convention space to their existing 2,000 room hotel and 329,000 sf of convention space. Visitor attractions to the resort complex include a par-72 golf course including a 18-hole on-property championship golf course and the near by Disney World and Universal Studios Theme Parks. The resort complex attract both regional and national conventions requiring an adequate parking system to meet the needs of the hotel and the convention facilities.

The objectives of the study were to determine the existing parking characteristics, implications of adding additional convention space to the complex and the implications of varying the types of conventions booked in the hotel. Also assessed were the implications of parking demand management to accommodate periods of peak demand.