Sasquatch Cookies

Project Overview

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Type: Retail Tenant Improvement

Sasquatch Cookies is a local Colorado Springs bakery bringing a new retail location to an existing commercial space. Frontier provided structural engineering support for the tenant improvement, ensuring the existing building was suitable for the new occupancy and that proposed modifications were safe and code-compliant.

Tenant Improvement Scope

Retail bakery tenant improvements often involve modifications that touch the structure in ways that aren’t immediately obvious: opening walls for service windows or pass-throughs, adding equipment loads from commercial ovens and refrigeration units, modifying the storefront for a new entry configuration, or adding interior features that bear on the floor structure.

Frontier’s scope included a review of the existing building structure to confirm its suitability for the new use, assessment of the proposed modifications against the existing structural capacity, and design of any required structural elements to support the new layout and equipment.

Existing Conditions Assessment

Before any modifications are designed, understanding what’s already there is essential. The existing building’s framing, connections, and foundation were reviewed to establish a baseline for the tenant improvement design: confirming bearing capacities, load paths, and the condition of existing members before new loads were added to the system.

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