Entertainment & Hospitality
Glendora Public Market Food Hall HVAC, Controls & Security
Mechanical, BAS, and integrated security for a new public market food hall.
Client
Empire Construction
Location
Glendora, CA
Service Line
VRF mechanical, EcoStruxure building automation, tenant metering, and security — all on one pane of glass.
Before it was a food hall, 905 East Arrow was a Hostess bakery outlet. Some of us remember it well — the after-school stop to spin the wheel for a one-dollar Hostess treat, Twinkies and powdered donuts for the walk home. So when the Glendora Public Market took shape inside that same building, this one was personal. It was for our community, in our own backyard.
The market turned 18,132 square feet into a food hall for eleven vendors. Athena engineered the mechanical and the building automation, then self-performed the install — working under general contractor Empire Construction, with GSW Builders as the owner’s representative.
On the mechanical side, we pulled the two old packaged rooftop units and engineered a VRF system in their place: heat-pump condensers feeding ceiling cassettes and concealed fan coils across the hall, with make-up air, evaporative cooling, and the kitchen and restroom exhaust a working commercial-kitchen floor demands.
Eleven vendors. One screen.
Eleven vendors, one screen. The real work was tying it all together. Athena installed and programmed a Schneider EcoStruxure front-end that runs the whole building from one interface: every tenant’s HVAC, the water and power metering for each stall, and sixteen IP cameras, inside and out, integrated through the same front-end. Operators reach it from a browser on a phone, a tablet, or the workstation in the electrical room.
Along the way, Athena value-engineered roughly $70,000 out of the job without giving up performance — tying smaller split systems into the main VRF condenser, cutting redundant fan coils, and swapping equipment where the cheaper unit performed identically. Real money back to the owner, no hit to how the building runs.
The market opened in 2020, and Athena still services the account today. Same controls team that programmed the front-end. A bakery outlet some of us grew up on, now a food hall we help keep running.
Client: Glendora Public Market. General Contractor: Empire Construction. Owner’s Representative: GSW Builders. Scope: VRF mechanical, Schneider EcoStruxure building automation, tenant water and power metering, and integrated video surveillance — self-performed by Athena Engineering.
Photography: RSM Design.
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