The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is being developed on the grounds of Fairhope’s first high school in a historic building that has sat vacant for over 10 years.
Watershed is working with the Hope Community on the planning and design of a community center and museum, teaching kitchen, teaching farm, and park on a 12-acre site in Fairhope South.
This adaptive reuse of an existing home into a Nature Center to serve the city’s newest park, Flying Creek Nature Preserve, is underway and will open to the public in 2025.
Watershed worked with Moffatt and Nichol to solicit extensive public feedback for the master plan of the Bayou La Batre City Docks, and to design a destination that supports economic and ecological revitalization.
Repair, renovation, and expansion of the American Legion’s headquarters overlooking Mobile Bay to accommodate the Legion’s ALERT emergency operations program, career counseling and other programs, club offices and meeting space, and a commercial restaurant.
The Summit Street Inn has had a long life since it was constructed as the Fairhope Hotel in 1925. Watershed is working with the current owner to revitalize the building into a modern boutique hotel.
In Progress:
An addition and deep renovations of an historic office building in Fairhope’s Central Business District, to create a welcoming, safe and healing space for meetings, workshops, events, and yoga classes, alongside a thriving clinical practice.
A space for art with an open, single-level floor plan adaptable for multigenerational living.
Natural elements create a biophilic interior to promote green and healthy living, while reducing energy costs for this small business.
An energy-efficient renovation upgrades the classic cottage style for a modern family lifestyle.
The design plays with light: bouncing indirect lighting off ceilings, using antique mirrors to reflect light and leafy views into interior spaces, and deploying louvered shutters to give a west-facing suite the feeling of a shady tropical retreat.
An old structure takes on new life as a center for environmental education and celebration.
