Commercial architecture · Master planning · Integrated engineering

We design the places where commerce happens.

From a single retail pad to a 300-acre district — Ventrix plans, designs and delivers commercial shells, restaurant destinations, light-industrial facilities and urban mixed-use places that lease fast and hold their value for decades.

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EST. 1987
LICENSED IN TEXAS
STUDIO — ARLINGTON

What we do

Ten disciplines.
One coordinated team.

Architecture, planning and engineering under a single contract — so the shell, the site plan, the structure and the MEP systems are drawn by people sitting at one table, on one schedule, toward one budget.

Selected work

Built evidence,
not renderings.

Shells that leased before topping out. Districts that phased cleanly. Restaurant rows with waiting lists. Filter by what you're building.

Master site planning A site plan is a business plan. We draw both.

Yield studies, parking strategy, phasing, utility corridors, entitlement risk — resolved on paper before a single dollar of dirt moves.

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Feasibility desk

Test-fit your site
in thirty seconds.

The same yield model we run in week one, opened to the public. Drop in an acreage and a use — get buildable square footage, footprint, parking and unit counts before you ever call an architect. (You'll still want to call one.)

Indicative planning factors only — actual yield depends on zoning, geometry, utilities and entitlements. Presets are editable in SITE.calc.

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Instant yield model — live

Factors: FAR, lot coverage & parking ratio per use type. Not a survey, not an entitlement commitment — a starting point for a conversation.

How we work

Raw land to ribbon‑cutting, in five moves.

Every market we serve runs through the same disciplined spine — so owners always know what decision is in front of them, and what it costs to make it late.

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  1. PHASE 01

    Discover & prove feasibility

    We walk the site, pull the code, and test-fit the program before you're committed. Zoning, parking counts, utility capacity, detention and drive geometry become numbers you can bank on.

    Site feasibilityTest fits in 72 hrsZoning & use analysisYield studies
  2. PHASE 02

    Master the site

    One land plan that balances visibility, access, parking ratio and phasing — from a four-pad retail hub to a 300-acre mixed-use district with its own street network and open space.

    Master site planningPhasing strategyParking & accessCivil coordination
  3. PHASE 03

    Design & engineer as one

    Architecture, structural, MEP and civil develop in a single coordinated model. Shells come out tenant-ready: clear heights, shaft sizes, dock counts and load paths already resolved.

    ArchitectureStructuralMEPPEMB / tilt-wallBIM coordination
  4. PHASE 04

    Clear entitlements

    We carry the drawings into every hearing that stands between you and a permit — planning commissions, design review boards, fire marshals — and we come with answers, not options.

    EntitlementsDesign reviewPermit setsCode paths
  5. PHASE 05

    Deliver & defend the schedule

    Pre-construction involvement from day one: procurement-ready documents, value engineering that protects the design intent, and site answers fast enough to keep trades moving.

    Pre-constructionVE without erosionCA & closeoutLease-up support

Why owners stay

Four promises we keep
on every job.

The studio

A practice built
for the deal.

Ventrix began in 1987 as a two-desk storefront studio drawing retail pads for local developers. Nearly four decades later we are a full-discipline practice — and we still measure a drawing by whether it helped someone say yes.

We stay deliberately focused on the commercial world: shells and core+shell buildings, master-planned districts, retail and restaurant destinations, light industrial and flex facilities, hospitality, and the adaptive reuse of structures worth saving. That focus is why our test fits are fast, our code paths are short, and our documents price the way they drew.

Because structural, MEP and civil sit inside the same studio as our architects, coordination happens in conversation — not in clash reports six weeks before bid. Owners get one contract, one schedule, and one team accountable for the whole building.

  • 01Clarity over spectacle. A building that confuses the eye never leases the second generation.
  • 02Commerce is a design input. Rent rolls, drive counts and lease spans belong on the sketch.
  • 03Draw what can be built. Every line is priced, procured and erected by someone real.
  • 04Leave places better. Parking fields become streets; streets become addresses.
Ventrix studio work table with a massing site model, plans and material samples
Studio table — Meridian Crossing massing model, phase II

Leadership

The people who sign the sheets.

Beyond the fee

Pro bono,
on purpose.

Architecture is the means through which we can make a lasting impact on our world. We take that responsibility seriously — and we budget hours for it.

Every year the studio reserves capacity for transformational community work: plans and buildings that a neighborhood needs but cannot commission. Recent efforts:

  • 01Fair Park Commons framework plan — pro-bono public-realm and phasing study for a 60-acre park district.
  • 02Eastside Kitchen Incubator — donated architecture & MEP documents for a 6,000 SF food-entrepreneur facility.
  • 03Main Street facade grant program — free design review for 40+ small-business storefronts since 2021.
Aerial view of a master-planned public realm framework
Fair Park Commons — pro-bono framework plan, 2025

Insights

What we've learned
the expensive way.

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Client words

Careers

Do the best work
of your career.

We hire people who like knowing what happens after the drawing: the pricing, the permit, the pour. Small teams, real responsibility, and a studio that signs what it draws.

Employee-ownedLicensure supportProfit sharing Hybrid studio weekAnnual study travel

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Tell us about
your site.

Send an address, a program and a deadline. We'll come back with a test fit, a fee and a straight answer — usually inside a week.

Studio
830 Hems Lane
Arlington, Texas 76001
Phone
+1 (682) 234-6240
Hours
Mon–Fri · 8:00–18:00 CT
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Six details.
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Tell us what you are building and where. We will come back with a written fee proposal — scope, schedule and exclusions included. No obligation, no vague ranges.

  1. 01Tell us the basics. Name, email, phone, area, location and type of construction — that is all we need to start.
  2. 02A principal reviews it. Every request is read by the person who would sign your drawings, not a call centre.
  3. 03You get it in writing. A clear proposal inside one business day, ready to compare, sign and build on.
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830 Hems Lane, Arlington, Texas 76001

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