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REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENT
EMIT’s HQ Turns a Kmart into a Landmark In Wyoming, CLB Architects transforms a former big box into a high-tech hub with a distinctive weathered-steel scrim. By Brian Libby
Originally a concrete Kmart superstore, the 120,000-square-foot adaptive reuse campus serves as a commercial and industrial center for the Sheridan, Wyoming, community while positioning EMIT as a technology hub.
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COURTESY NIC LEHOUX
AN EMPTY BIG-BOX RETAIL BUILDING beside an interstate highway on the outskirts of Sheridan, Wyoming, might not have seemed an obvious place to transform a manufacturing company’s identity and attract a new generation of tech-savvy employees. But EMIT Technologies CEO Casey Osborn knew this former Kmart could become a striking company headquarters. “I didn’t want to be in a position where it was like, ‘EMIT, they’re up in the Kmart building.’ But there were some bones here that we could leverage,” Osborn says. “We just need it to have some identity, something representative of the work we do.” Designed by Jackson, Wyoming’s CLB Architects, with the client also serving as the project’s general contractor, the EMIT Technologies headquarters consolidates WINTER 2024