City Range Steakhouse Grill
Various Locations
City Range Steakhouse Grill is an upscale, yet casual, restaurant which debuted in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1998. City Range’s distinctive menu, venue, design and service quickly attracted attention, making it a local favorite for residents as well as business groups. When the restaurant’s owners decided to expand the popular City Range brand elsewhere in the Carolinas, Britt, Peters and Associates provided structural and civil design services for a prototype restaurant intended to reproduce the original City Range experience. The resulting 8,400-square-foot, 288-seat restaurant consists of a full-service kitchen, main dining room, an auxiliary dining room and a bar/lounge.
For City Range patrons, part of the restaurant’s appeal is the building itself. The design incorporates appropriate scale, materials, and imagery to create an “urban lodge” aesthetic. A public hall with a two-sided fireplace functions as a gathering space and organizing element from which customers access the dining rooms and lounge area. Large fireplaces and exposed-wood roof structures are evident in each gathering space, echoing a lodge environment. At both the building’s exterior and interior, the urban character of clean materials, refined lines and contemporary details are contrasted against the less refined lodge elements of stone and exposed-wood roof structure. The entrance is graced by a distinctive portico.
A significant challenge for Britt, Peters and Associates came after groundbreaking when the contractor discovered the site was several feet lower than was indicated on the survey. The Britt Peters team responded to this setback by making a number of
design changes “on the fly” to keep construction on schedule.
Britt Peters also provided structural design for City Range’s newest location in Asheville, North Carolina, as well as for 60 Smokey Bones Barbeque & Grill locations across the country, 200-plus McDonald’s stores in the Southeast, and nearly 10 Bonefish Grill facilities in four states. Other restaurant chains for which Britt Peters has designed structural prototypes include Applebee’s, Outback Steakhouse and Panera Bread.
