Adaptive reuse

Big tours used to belong almost exclusively to major metros. But over the last decade, smaller cities have started landing A-list acts and multi-night runs that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. The secret is rarely just better marketing. It’s almost always better venues. Bangor, Maine is a powerful example. The Maine Savings Amphitheater, […]

In a thriving live entertainment ecosystem, restaurants are not side characters. They’re costars. Fans arrive hours before a show looking for food, drinks, and social energy. After the encore, many are not ready to go home. Restaurants and bars that understand this show rhythm don’t just benefit from it—they help define it. At Ervin Architecture,

Across North America, smaller cities and former mill towns are sitting on a quiet superpower: historic building stock. Brick warehouses, timber-framed mercantile structures, and century-old storefronts often sit underused while communities search for ways to bring people—and energy—back downtown. Adaptive reuse hospitality projects are one of the fastest ways to flip that story. Ervin Architecture’s

Rooftop spaces have quietly become some of the most powerful revenue-generating real estate in hospitality and live entertainment. A great rooftop bar or sky deck can turn a “nice venue” into the place everyone wants to be seen. At Ervin Architecture, we’ve seen this firsthand through projects like the KANU rooftop lounge in Old Town,

If you ask a fan what they remember about a great concert, it’s almost never the structure. It’s the feeling: the sound cutting clean through the night, the view from their seat, the energy of thousands of people moving as one. The job of an amphitheater architect is to turn those intangible moments into something