Colonie Center Building Expansion & Redevelopment

McLaren’s most significant contribution to this large-scale effort was the design of a 74,000 square foot structure to house the Regal Cinema multiplex. The theater is a third-floor building constructed above the Mall’s roof, linked into but not reliant upon the existing structure. It is essentially a building on top of a building, made to appear as an organic part of the Mall. After assessing the original Mall structure, it was determined that constructing the new structure would be most efficient if done so without disturbing the existing portion. The theater, therefore, required its own lateral system and seismic analysis.