by David Andrews on March 5, 2010
Thin Brick in Restaurants
Restaurants from coast to coast have made Tejas Stone’s thin brick lines consistently one of their best-sellers !
Tejas Stone by Veneerstone offers two sizes of thin brick. A king-sized (wire-cut style) thin brick which is popular for larger building exteriors, but they also carry a smaller queen-sized which has become a favorite for restaurant interiors.
The smaller size is available in both modular and antique. The antique has proven to be the most popular, as restaurants enjoy the warmth and old world style of the antique thin brick.
Some restaurants using Tejas thin brick include, Corner Bakery Cafe, with locations throughout the country, Punk’s Backyard Grill in Anapolis, MD., and Oliveto’s Italian Bistro with locations throughout the southwest.
Well known and respected restaurant designer Kathy Diamond-Ulepic of Kathy Diamond Design Associates in Scottsdale, Ariz., has always been a big fan of using thin brick on restaurant interiors. She has been the lead designer on many new concept restaurants over the last couple of years.
Tejas Textured Stone by Pavestone is proud to be featured in these fine restaurants !
Look for our NEW king sized thin brick to be featured on our blog and website soon !
by David Andrews on February 24, 2010
In an effort to captilize on sales, The world’s largest specialty coffee chain, Starbucks coffee has continued to add drive-thru windows at as many locations as possible.
Starbucks featuring Tejas Manufactured Stone
Company officials have reported that the emphasis on drive-thrus have also been “driven” <pun-intended> by the company’s expansion to the suburbs.
Many years ago, Starbucks was a standard fixture in inner-city locations and drive-thru opportunities were much more rare. As the company began opening more and more suburban stores, the majority of new stores began to include drive-thrus.
Tejas Stone by Veneerstone is proud to be featured on many Starbucks locations. The drystack application of Stackstone has been a popular choice of Starbucks. The attached picture shows one location that used Tejas Stone’s Texas Cream Stackstone.
Have you used a Starbucks drive-thru recently, What is your favorite Starbuck’s treat? Comment below and let us know.
by David Andrews on February 12, 2010
McDonald's Interior - Colleyville
The world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s has set-out to bring a sophisticated look to their restaurant interiors.
Included in the new interiors are many new elements that include enhanced seating and decor elements, contemporary artwork, modern lighting and fixtures, wood and metal seating, updated restrooms and Tejas Stone’s new sleek panel system, Imperial Stack Stone.
The panel system from Tejas Stone is not only a great looking product that provides a contemporary look, but it installs much faster than a standard drystack look and fits together tighter then virtually any other manufacturers quick-stak panel system.
The panel system was developed by Tejas Stone by Veneerstone’s chief of product development, who Tejas hired away from Cultured Stone some years ago. He has stated that “this is the tightest fast stack manufactured stone system available in the industry and he is proud to have been able to improve on his earlier work in this field”
Traditional dry-stack stone applications require that an installer place each & every stone individually. The Imperial Stack panel system allows the installer to install one piece that represents up to six individual pieces thus HUGE savings are achieved in installation cost!
Imperial stack has become extremely popular on both residential and commercial properties including new hotels.
Tejas Stone is proud to be featured on both McDonald’s exteriors as well as the new interiors of their restaurants throughout the US.
by David Andrews on February 9, 2010
Unleashed Dog Park
Unleashed Dog Park, which opened last year has seen great success despite a “rough-rough” economy!
Unleashed owners, Kelly and Cody Acree raised $10 million to build the massive 50,000 SF facility situated on 6.5 acres just 4 miles outside of downtown Dallas, Texas.
In addition to being the nation’s first indoor dog park, the facility also has a pet supply center, restaurant, cyber café, grooming, daycare and lounge areas overlooking all the action.
The owners have recently reported to CNN news that the park is averaging in excess of $200,000 a month in income! And sales having been increasing at approx. 10%.
Tejas Textured Stone worked with the owners to coordinate selections of two different stones for both interior and exterior use.
The couple settled on one of Tejas Stone’s newer and best selling colors, Mineral County in the Pacific Ledgestone series and Limestone in the Cowboy color. Both products from Tejas Stone by Veneerstone were used on both the exterior cladding of the building as well as the massive interior finish out.
Limestone from Tejas comes in large 12″ x 24″ pieces and mimics natural limestone, but installs much faster and easier then its natural counterpart, thus allowing developers to save as much as 45% of the cost of using natural limestone !
The owners have plans to open several locations throughout the US. Have you and man’s best friend made a visit to this park? Let us know what you think !
Unleashed Dog Park Interior
by David Andrews on February 1, 2010
Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores
Braum’s continues to roll-out their new “W” prototype of restaurant, dairy & ice cream stores.
Braum’s President Drew Braum stated “the company is initially concentrating on replacing older stores that do not have drive-thru windows”
The new stores are approx. 6,000 square feet with a Tejas Stone Ledgestone exterior. The new stores will still have the traditional fountain area for ice cream, grill area for sandwiches, and fresh market for dairy, bakery, meat and produce. However, incorporated in the new prototype is a much larger “Fresh Market” with wider aisles.
Braum’s is a family owned company headquartered in Oklahoma and operates over 280 Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Stores throughout Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Arkansas.
Tejas Stone worked with Braum’s to achieve a custom color that the company had in mind. Tejas is proud to be featured on this beautiful new prototype for their stores!
Have you visited a new Braum’s location? Comment below and tell us about your favorite Braum’s treat – My personal favorite is the Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae – YUMMY!!
by David Andrews on January 25, 2010
Market Street - Watters Crossing Allen, Texas
Market Street Grocery Store in Watters Crossing has recently been honored as the Best Grocery Store by the city’s local paper, The Allen American.
The grocery store opened in 2009 and features Tejas Stone’s #1 selling style & color; Austin Buckeye.
The same Tejas Stone is featured both on the exterior and throughout the beautiful interior as well.
Market Street, a division of United Supermarkets, is a unique grocery store that combines the affordability and practicality of everyday shopping with the upscale gift items, organic foods and gourmet products of a specialty store.
Tejas Stone is proud to be the stone featured on this fantastic store !!
by David Andrews on January 20, 2010
Colorado Cabin featuring Tejas Stone
Tejas Stone by Veneerstone has recently become a member of the US Green Building Council
The company has always been on the forefront of manufacturing in a socially responsible way and has consistently pursued ways to maximize sustainability and lessen the impact on the environment.
One of the ways Tejas has built a “greener world” is by donating its’ scrap to be used in producing roads throughout the US.
Tejas has had the privileged of being involved in numerous projects achieving varying levels of LEED certification, an independent, third-party verification that insures a building project meets the highest green building and performance measures.
These projects have ranged from residential to commercial to government projects.
Factories located coast to coast and distribution through hundreds of retailers insures that the manufactured stone travels the least number of miles to get to your project.
Contact Tejas Stone to asses the possibility of LEED points for your project when using our manufactured stone.
by David Andrews on January 6, 2010
The new color introduced last year by Tejas Stone by Veneerstone has quickly become one of the company’s best sellers !!
The color came about because a longtime customer of Tejas, Alliance / Broadstone Properties wanted to build three new apartment communities and have the same colored natural stone that existed on their Lewisville, Texas property.
However, they were well aware that building a large scale project with natural stone would cost them a great deal more then using the manufactured product produced by Tejas Stone, so they called upon Tejas’ experienced product development team to mimic the natural stone – (nicotine) in a custom matched manufactured product !
Broadstone was thrilled with the results and used the newly named “Canyon Blend” color on three apartment complexes they built in 2009.
Tejas Stone decided to make it a standard color when they kept getting request for the stone from individuals who had seen the apartment complexes located throughout the DFW area.
With its’ heavy pallet of rich copper tones, Canyon Blend is a fantastic compliment to the Tejas line!
by David Andrews on December 28, 2009
Image hospitality has recently opened a brand new concept Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Lufkin, Texas. A second mirror image property is set to open in a month in Wichita Falls, Texas !!
Both properties feature the same Tejas Stone style, Imperial Stack stone. Tejas’s Imperial Stack stone is a panel system, which gives the look of drystack stone but installs up to 40% faster than standard drystacked stone. The Imperial Stack profile helped complete the contemporary, modern, sleek look that the franchise was looking for.
The four story hotels are among the first of this new prototype for Marriott Hotels, but the company plans as many as a hundred more in the next year and a half !
Image Hospitality is an award-winning Marriott franchise, having developed and managed lodging properties ranked in the top 10 percent nationwide of hotels within the Marriott branded franchises. www.imagehospitality.com
by David Andrews on December 21, 2009
Churchill Lake Highlands, which was a project that featured Tejas Stone’s Limestone Sorrento on both the exterior and interior was recently awarded the The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Silver Achievement Award for excellence in building & design.
The annual awards presented by The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) is considered the industry’s premier awards program honoring excellence in building, design, and marketing for the seniors housing industry.
The beautiful Churchill Lake Highlands project is a senior living facility in Dallas, Texas which was developed and is operated by Churchill Residential, a firm dedicated to building quality senior housing living facilities throughout the U.S.
KWA Construction served as General Contractor for the project, http://www.kwaconstruction.com/projectsChurchill.aspx which was designed by Stephanie Dunn with Faulkner Design Group.
Faulkner Design Group is one of the Nation’s premier designers in Multifamily & Senior housing. Tejas/Veneerstone developed the Limestone style specifically for Faulkner Design on another project some years ago. http://www.faulknerdesign.com/ It has quickly become one of the company’s best-selling profiles as it mimics natural limestone at a fraction of the cost of the natural version.
Tejas Limestone is available nationwide from their factories coast-to-coast. http://www.tejasstone.com/
