German Village Pride Parade Float
HDC employee Cathie Senter is leading the charge and working late with her crew to get the first-ever German Village float ready for the June 16 parade! Click here for the article. Below are photos from the parade: View of the float getting ready for the parade. View of the float in the parade. Neil […]
Fall 2017
HDC Welcomes Cathie Senter! Cathie worked with HDC on the Woodward Opera House in 2007, where she assessed the condition of the wooden windows and prepared drawings and specifications for their repair. Cathie noticed that the second floor windows were originally 6-over-6, but the muntins had been cut out and they were reglazed as 1-over-1 […]
HDC says Goodbye to Office Manager Mej Stokes
HDC’s office manager for the past 11 years passed away on August 7 after a long illness. Since 2006, Mej took care of bookkeeping, human resources issues, filing, and just about anything and everything to support the office. Mej will be fondly remembered by current and former coworkers for listening to our personal and office issues, bringing in home-made treats or getting […]
Hardlines Design Company President on Women’s Radio Network
(originally posted by Andy Sewell on October 2, 2014) Women’s Radio Network (www.wrnw1.com) is an online broadcasting company dedicated to giving female professionals a voice online. Women’s Radio Network provides women with an avenue for communicating their professional knowledge to a wider audience and with a forum for networking with other professionals. On September 23, […]
The 2012 American Cultural Resources Association Conference: Takeaways
(by Anne Lee, originally posted October 11, 2012) I recently attended the American Cultural Resources Association’s (ACRA) annual conference in Seattle, held September 6-8 – three days packed with educational sessions full of useful information. I learned that I can take a lot of notes very quickly – which is good since my brain has […]
Bill Faciane: 15 years of Service at Hardlines Design Company
(by Charissa Durst, originally posted on October 3, 2012) When facilities planner and architectural engineer Bill Faciane first started work at Hardlines Design Company in 1997, he assured me he would work on anything we needed, except he would not pick out any colors. Bill came to us with a pretty impressive range of experience […]
Congratulations to the 2012 Recchie Award Winners!
(by Andy Sewell, originally posted October 1, 2012 ) Hardlines Design Company would like to congratulate our friends at Schooley Caldwell Associates and Burgess & Niple, who were on the teams that jointly won the 2012 James B. Recchie Award on Thursday, September 27th. “A River Runs Through It” could easily describe the projects that […]
Columbus Landmarks’ 2012 Annual Design & Preservation Awards Tonight!
(by Andy Sewell, originally posted September 27, 2012) It’s that time of year again, when Columbus Landmarks presents the annual Design & Preservation Awards. Our friends at Schooley Caldwell Associates and at Burgess & Niple are nominees for the James B. Recchie Design Award honoring excellence in urban design this year. The event is being […]
Heritage Tourism, Hardlines Design style!
(by Charissa Durst, originally posted on September 7, 2012) In the past two months, my husband Don and I managed to take a couple of weekend days off and explore the sites at the Dayton Aviation National Historical Park. Don has a National Park Service passport book and is obsessed with getting as many stamps […]
How Fast Can You Do That Cultural Resources Survey?
(originally posted January 27, 2012) Four things a client can do to speed up a survey before the contract is signed Quite often, when planning their cultural resources surveys (typically for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act), our clients ask us, “How soon can you finish your survey?!” We’re always eager […]