Papa John’s Renovation

After having completed three new stores for the local franchisee, including the single busiest store in the country, Radium Architecture was asked to renovate the franchisee’s first store. The challenge was not only to bring the building up to current Papa John’s franchise guidelines as well as the current City of Clemson zoning guidelines, but to do so with a design that would allow the building to be built in phases that kept the business in continuous operation.

The store started life as a service station and underwent many renovations through the years for different businesses before finally becoming a Papa John’s store. These intermediate renovations were performed with questionable construction techniques that proposed challenges to a simple, straight forward renovation.

The design team decided that the best course of action would be to remove the entire facade of the building and reconstruct a new facade that would create a newly cohesive building, meeting both the owners expectations as well as the City of Clemson’s comprehensive design standards.