HFA C-Store Brochure

Convenience Store Design

Architecture + Engineering Services

Our Story

Our 30 years of practice has taught us the importance of relationships built on trust and confidence. We trust our clients and partners to understand the needs of their customers, and they trust us to lead the design process for their spaces.

National Coverage

We have over 315 professionals working coast to coast, and licensure across all 50 states, so we can collaborate no matter where you’re based. We seek to deliver the right balance of simplicity and innovation to align teams and technology around what matters most—your customer.

10,000+ projects permitted

across OFFICES 4 COUNTRIES2 1900+ communities

Solutions that Scale

Customer expectations are always changing—and so is your business. That’s why your A+E firm needs to be flexible. Whether you’re an investment pioneer working on your first concept or an established company updating your prototype, we can help.

Powerful Technology

We help our clients fully take advantage of the “I” in BIM and assist their efforts to establish standards and drive model consistency.

By leveraging the latest VR/AR technology to explore your projects in real-time, you’ll be able to help inform smarter design decisions and facilitate early project buy-in from stakeholders.

The Future of Convenience Store Design

HFA and Bona Design Lab have formed a strategic alliance to provide c-store clientele with even more innovative ways to grow their brands with fully integrated, end-to-end solutions designed for optimal consumer experience. The two brands recently co-authored a white paper exploring the future of c-store design.

What can you find in this white paper?

Co-authors James Owens (HFA) and Joseph Bona (BDL) dive into five specific areas of opportunity for the global industry:

• Integrating Omnichannel Offerings

• Revolutionizing Convenience Foodservice

• Anticipating Cultural Shifts

• Capitalizing on Electrification

• Returning to the Corner Store

by

Reimagining Sites + Stores:

James Owens + Joseph Bona

EG America

Various Locations

Our partnership with Cumberland Farms (now under the banner of EG America) began in 2013, when our team was brought on to develop and manage its new store prototype rollout. The team at HFA has since provided full architecture and engineering services to help better support the EG America team and this recently included merging the Cumberland Farms prototype with EG America’s branding, in terms of look and feel when it comes to not only Cumberland Farms but other formats, as well.

Our work with EG America has also included a virtual reality tour of the new prototype so our clients could better visualize their customer’s instore experience prior to construction, allowing for real-time updates to the prototype that limited schedule and cost implications.

OUR EXPERIENCE

OUR EXPERIENCE

Love’s Travel Stops

Various Locations

At the onset of our partnership with Love’s Travel Stops in 2014, we were tasked with providing fueling design services with CNG pumps. Fast forward to today and our dedicated team now provides full-service architecture, engineering, and fueling support for the new store program (which includes franchise-based restaurants combined with a traditional c-store layout), the remodel program, as well as tire service facilities across the country.

As part of our growing partnership with the Love’s team, HFA actively develops and manages the new store prototype, maintaining consistency and providing Love’s the ability to scale at a more rapid pace.

Stripes

Various Locations in TX, LA, OK + NM

Prior to its acquisition by 7-Eleven, Stripes sought out a partnership with HFA to develop a new prototype design, while simultaneously providing full services for their successful new store and remodel roll out program. HFA collaborated with design firm Chute Gerdeman to help the Stripes team redefine the way customers interacted with the Laredo Taco Company, taking it from a minor establishment hidden away from view to a destination within the c-store environment itself.

HFA was also responsible for implementing a full project administration system to include all facets of a project from real estate investigation through construction, including real-time project tracking and documentation.

OUR EXPERIENCE

OUR EXPERIENCE

Alltown Fresh

Various Locations in MA, NH, NY + CT

HFA collaborated with Moseley-Bona to breathe new life into the Alltown Café and Market concept, reinvigorating the design to reflect the fresh, local, organic, and made-to-order offerings that customers have since come to know and expect from Alltown Market. Built to be both aesthetically pleasing and easy to shop, these new and re-branded stores gave off purely New England vibes, thanks to the natural tones of the materials applied throughout and the use of locally available building products.

Each location provided the opportunity for the team’s creativity to shine by utilizing interesting, reclaimed materials to give each store its own unique look and feel, while still retaining the same brand recognition that loyal customers know and love.

Seasons

Various Locations

The HFA team was brought in to finish out this project with Seasons, our first collaboration with them. Because we were brought in after the project began, the timeline was expedited, however that didn’t stop our team from getting quickly up to speed on both how the client operates and specific brand guidelines that need to be incorporated in the design and build. Before we came on board, Seasons was working with two separate firms for architecture and engineering services, so the unique benefit we brought to the table was our ability to merge both disciplines under one umbrella, allowing for ideal collaboration and consistent communication with all the different stakeholders working alongside us on this project.

OUR EXPERIENCE

OUR EXPERIENCE

Jiffy Trip

Various Locations in OK

Since 2017, HFA has collaborated on three ground-up projects with Jiffy Trip, in various locations within Oklahoma, with more projects on the boards. Throughout this partnership, opportunities have arisen for our team to lean in further in other areas that we specialize in, such as design and construction. Not only that, but our fueling team has been able to support the fueling needs of Jiffy Trip, which has led to new processes to better serve their needs.

The team at HFA is excited to see what this partnership will hold in the future as Jiffy Trip looks to expand its reach further into Arkansas and the surrounding areas soon.

7-Eleven

Various Locations

Since the beginning of our partnership with 7-Eleven, scaling at a fast pace has always been the goal, so our team worked to develop a new prototype that allowed us to help design and build 1,000 stores in five years, while also applying value engineering principles to keep costs manageable and meeting 7-Eleven’s goal of an overall 25% reduction in energy. Our team also designed a program using BIM technology that provided automated material takeoffs to pre-negotiated vendors for material procurement, facility maintenance, and operations.

The full team approach we use to serve our 7-Eleven clients includes not just architecture and engineering services, but also permitting, landscape, irrigation, drainage, site design, and construction administration.

OUR EXPERIENCE

OUR EXPERIENCE

MAPCO Express

Various Locations in TN + AL

HFA collaborated with the team at Chute Gerdeman to revisit MAPCO’s previous prototype to bring a new efficiency and streamlined flow to the space, while simultaneously refreshing and modernizing MAPCO’s brand identity and customer experience. HFA provided architectural and engineering services for the prototype as well as fueling design, which included implementing an all new fueling canopy.

Our team was also behind the creation of MAPCO’s new design standards, created to streamline project work and design direction in the future.

Wawa

Morrisville, PA

HFA recently collaborated on an innovative drive-through-only (DTO) project for Wawa in Morrisville, PA. Our team was able to bring our internal expertise in architecture and engineering to the table while working with trusted contractors to ensure we adhered to Wawa’s building and design standards every step of the way.

This test project, which was a first for Wawa, was especially exciting because it allowed our team to collaborate on getting a new store prototype to market in record time. This format also allows customers to grab the essentials they know and love from Wawa at an even faster pace without leaving their car.

OUR EXPERIENCE

Fueling Services at HFA

Our fueling team works closely with owners to design a prototype fueling station that is efficient, cost effective and easy to maintain. We also provide UST and AST system design and deliver high-quality construction documents to fuel installers. We stay current with evolving regulations and standard practices as well as equipment changes and upgrades.

HFA designs the underground fuel systems and delivers high quality documents to the contractors. We stay current with maintenance of the prototype as jurisdictional regulations evolve and upgrades to equipment occur.

Fueling systems have been designed for Kum & Go, MAPCO Express, Jiffy Trip, Love’s Travel Centers, 7-Eleven Stores, Sam’s Club, Sam’s Mart, Stripes, and Walmart in over 1,600 projects.