March 23rd is National Puppy Day! Colleen Paige founded National Puppy Day in 2006 in the hopes of improving the lives of puppies everywhere by encouraging adoption and celebrating the unconditional love that puppies bring into our lives! Here at R&A we consider dogs to be puppies at any age! […]
This new structure was built to replace the open parking lot at 2nd & Center Street in Downtown Royal Oak, MI. Rich & Associates worked alongside the City of Royal Oak providing parking consulting, architectural and engineering design services. The 2nd & Center Street Garage was successfully completed in January […]
Continuing Our 55-year Anniversary Celebration! As we continue to celebrate our 55-year anniversary here at Rich & Associates, we’re looking back in to the 1970′ at some of our firm’s more noteworthy projects! The ’70s were a notable decade at R&A for many reasons. During this period, we expanded our […]
We are almost there! For many of us we are almost through another winter season.The arrival of spring brings with it a fresh beginning, a time most of us use to our advantage to get some Spring Cleaning done! When we think of Spring Cleaning the first thing that comes […]
As we celebrate Rich & Associates turning 55 this year, we’re taking a look back at some of our most monumental projects from our first decade! Rich & Associates is proud to have completed three “firsts” of a kind during our initial years! Topping our list of “firsts” is Stanwix […]
Seeing how far parking structures have come is a good exercise to see how far they can still go. Twenty-five years ago, Rich & Associates gathered copies of many historic parking related patents illustrating some of the early creativity in parking design. Some of these patents date back as far […]
Our R&A Family: Our veteran staff, comprised of architects, engineers, and planners, have turned Rich & Associates into a family-like culture of professionals who genuinely care about one another and our clients. “A lot of our staff has been working together since the start of our careers. We kinda grew-up […]
Parking has significantly risen over the years. Today, it costs about $20 a day to park at Disneyland. But can you guess what year it cost only .25¢ to park there? The answer is 1965. Can you believe it only cost .25¢ to park at Disneyland!? While we must consider […]
Whether you like winter or not, there’s no way to stop it. It is coming. And if you’re one of those lucky people that don’t get cold winter weather, this article is not for you. It is for those who live in a cold harsh climate; those who want to […]
If you worked in the A/E/C (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) field from 2008-2014 you are very much aware that the industry was in a very tough place. Large projects were halted, people were laid off, and some firms even folded. The recession hit our industry hard, but we are a tough group of individuals, […]