A Modern, Masculine Memphis Home with Luxury Finishes

Shapiro & Company's architecture alongside Murphy Maude Interiors created a home that uniquely blends modernity and tradition. We are pleased that the home has been recognized by Rue Magazine, you can read the story here!

Union Depot Breaks Ground in Bartlett

We are proud to have been featured in the Memphis Business Journal for our project, Union Depot! This mixed-use development will be coming to Bartlett in 2025, with ground breaking having already started. Read the story here to get more details and see what our CEO Brad Shapiro has to say!

Oak Hill wins GOLD in 2023 BALA Awards

Shapiro & Company is proud to annouce that we have won Gold for the Remodel category in the 2023 Best in American Living (BALA) Awards by the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB). Now in its milestone 40th anniversary year, BALA recognizes outstanding achievement by builders and design professionals in all sectors of the residential housing industry including single-family production, custom, multifamily, affordable, remodeling, community and interiors. BALA is built on the principle that all great homes start with great design, no matter cost or size.

Click the link below to read more about his project, and see additional photos here!

https://bestinamericanliving.com/awards/oak-hill

Maximizing Modern: A Well-Informed Kitchen Design

We are thrilled to annouce that our Midtown Modern Tudor custom home has been chosen as a Gold Nugget Merit Award Winner in the "Best Custom Home Under 5000 square feet" category! The annual Gold Nugget Awards honor architectural design and planning excellence and draws entries throughout the United States and internationally. Our design was selected by a panel of top industry experts who reviewed nearly 650 entries nationwide, and there are only 5 merit finalists in our category.

"Gold Nugget Award winners reflect our industry's best, brightest, and most innovative architects, planners, and builder/developers," said Judging Chairman and Gold Nugget ceremonies administrator Lisa Parrish. "We applaud them all." In it's 60th year, GNA is the largest and most prestigious competition of its kind in the nation. It honors design and planning achievements in community and home design, green-built housing, site planning, commercial, retail, mixed-use development, and specialty hosuing categories.

To view all categories and finalists, click here.

Tillman Cove receives THDA's Tennessee Best Neighborhood Stabilization Award 2023

Shapiro & Company is proud to be the architect for Tillman Cove, which received the Tennessee Housing Development Agency's (TDHA) Tennessee Best Neighborhood Stabilization Award 2023 during the Tennessee Housing Conference. The Tennessee's Best Awards honor outstanding individuals and organizations with significant contributions to affordable housing in Tennessee.

Tillman Cove features apartments, townhomes, independent senior living, and retail space that will provide 238 new and rehabilitated units for low-income families and senior citizens. Amentities will include a leasing office, community room, laundry room, and fitness center. The spacious units will feature granite counter tops, energy star appliances, washer/dryer hookups, walk-in closets, and patios or balconies. A portion of units will be designed and reserved for seniors. The work to revitalize Tillman Cove was funded in part by $29 million in tax-exempt bonds and over $892 thousand dollars in the National Housing Trust Fund grant.

“THDA is proud to recognize Tillman Cove and Elmington Capital for their incredible contributions to affordable housing in the Memphis area,” said THDA Executive Director Ralph Perrey. “We applaud their dedication to the stabilization of the Memphis area."

See the full list of awards and recipients here.

2022 Best in America Living Award

Shapiro & Company was honored to receive the national design award Best in American Living for a custom home. This award recognizes the best residential architecture across the country with the award being presented at the 2023 International Builders Show in Las Vegas.

Click link here to see the full article.

Apartment and townhome phases endorsed at Union Depot

Bartlett Municipal Planning Commission unanimously endorsed the construction plans, final plans and a site plan created by Shapiro & Company Architects for the exciting Union Depot Development.

The historic Dermon Building Downtown is poised for a $17.1 million makeover.

Developers Nick and Sam Patel have filed a 12-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) application with the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission, for the redevelopment of the 97-year-old building.

The 10-story, 90,000-square-foot building at 46 B.B. King Blvd. will be renovated into 103 residential units with 2,000 square feet of flexible, mixed-use space on the ground floor, according to the PILOT application.

The renovations will also include an outdoor pool area for residents and a dog park.

Dermon Building residential unit breakdown

45 studio apartments
58 one-bedroom apartments
Average apartment size of 651 square feet

Dermon Capital Group, bought the Dermon Building in January 2016 for $1.5 million, according to the Shelby County Register of Deeds.

The company also owns the adjacent parking lots along Court Avenue. The developers plan to use those adjacent lots for parking and are working on a potential agreement with the Hotel Indigo owners for use of the hotel’s parking garage. Construction is expected to cost $17,108,112.

Pending the necessary permit approvals and financing, the developers plan to begin construction in the third quarter of 2023.

Construction is estimated to finish in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the PILOT application.

Sam Patel’s Cordova-based company, Hospitality Builders of America Inc., is the general contractor for the project. Memphis-based Shapiro and Co. Architects is the architect for the development.

The PILOT application is on Center City Revenue Finance Corp.'s agenda for its Tuesday, Aug. 9, meeting.

Burkle and Main Apartments Announced as Finalist for 2022 Building Memphis Award

We are so excited to share this great drone footage of our new multifamily project, Oakwood Flats Apartments!

Nashville Multifamily Update: Can the City's Residential Boom Continue?

We were incredibly excited for Brad to participate in BISNOW's Multifamily Update Webinar. Along with Bristol Development's CIO, David Hanchrow, Brad joined the discussion on how COVID-19 is affecting the Multifamily market in Nashville today as well as the designs of the future.

As Brad prepares to be a panelist on BISNOW Nashville webinar to discuss some of the impacts of COVID-19 on the Nashville multifamily market, as a team we recently brainstormed the possible impacts that might be worth considering in the design of new or repositioned communities.

Harbor Town's "Harbor Island" in Memphis has phenomenal views of downtown Memphis.

Loeb Properties of Memphis and partner Grubb Properties of Charlotte, NC have received a $17.6 million PILOT to build a $54 million project consisting of 350 apartments in the heart of the Broad Avenue Arts District.

Shapiro & Company Architects are the architect of record and BB+M out of Charlotte are the design architects. Reid Cullers, Director of Shapiro’s Multifamily Studio says, “the project was unanimously approved for the 15-year tax break, and the magnitude of the project will most certainly be transformative to the entire Binghampton neighborhood”.

Shapiro & Company Architects is honored to be selected as the architect for the conversion of this building originally designed in 1977 by nationally recognized Roy P. Harrover & Associates. Amongst many other accolades, Harrover designed the award-winning Memphis International Airport.

The Tap Room @ The Brewery is a 4-story multifamily project on the historic Tennessee Street in downtown Memphis. Amenities for this building include a private courtyard with a pool in addition to a commercial bay on the ground floor.

Renovation of home in Chickasaw Gardens maintains historic Midtown Memphis style, but doubles the size.

Our very own Brad Shapiro was on the panel at BISNOW's Nashville Multifamily Boom conference held this Wednesday to discuss the white-hot multifamily market in Music City.

Shapiro & Company Architect's housing development breaks ground in the Pond Gap area of Knoxville, TN.

Shapiro & Company Architects attended the Grand Opening of Robinson Flats, a new 209-unit affordable, senior living community located in Old Hickory, TN.

When the Loeb family wanted to expand their farmhouse living space, they turned to Shapiro & Company Architects. Southern Living magazine online recently featured this screened porch addition.

Construction begins in June, 2019

Shapiro & Company architects has completed the final renderings on a new multimillion dollar apartment complex. "Midtown Memphis is a great place to live, and the developers had the foresight to realize there is a need for more upscale accomodations in that area," says Brad Shapiro, CEO of Shapiro & Company Architects.

Shapiro & Company Architects is working to bring affordable housing to Memphis. Find out more about this 205 unit apartment complex at the corner of Danny Thomas and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevard...

Neighborhood near University of Memphis backs up to Highland Row

The first two spec-built houses are nearing completion and are already sold in one of the city’s largest infill developments of single-family homes in the past decade.

Cabernet to the Core

Wine occupies a central place in the lives of many collectors, but few go as far as entrepreneur Craig Weiss, who contracted Shapiro & Company Architects to design his Memphis, Tennessee home around a sumptuous cellar custom-built for his California Cabernet-centric holdings.

Binghampton Development Corp (BDC) and Shapiro and Company Architects works on engaging neighborhood residents to build a better community, provide job training, and affordable homes.

The Memphis Business Journal honors small businesses each year that have achieved continued growth and profitability. Shapiro & Company Architects is proud to be a 2018 finalist in the MBJ Small Business awards.

The Crescent Bluff II apartment complex designed by Shapiro & Company Architects is a finalist in the NAHB's Multifamily Pillars of the Industry Awards for The Best Affordable Apartment Community.

When Elmington Capital Group decided to invest $29.9 million dollars into an affordable housing apartment complex in Knoxville, Tennessee they hired Shapiro & Company Architects to do the design.

Shapiro & Company Architects are extremely pleased to announce that our Hickory Lake Apartment Community in Nashville, TN has won Best Rehabilitation of an Affordable Apartment Community as announced during the International Builders' Show.