Designer Digs
CBLH utilizes own expertise at new headquarters

By Diane DiPiero

As a 39-year-old architecture, planning and design firm, CBLH Design has helped to create efficient and attractive workspaces for numerous clients. Two years ago, the Middleburg Heights-based company had the opportunity to devise such a space for its own partners and employees. The result was a 7,800-square-foot facility that allows team members to collaborate and maximize their creative talents while illustrating to visiting clients that CBLH provides functional, thoughtful and aesthetically pleasing design solutions.

CBLH specializes in educational, healthcare, library and community/corporate projects. The company’s list of clients includes Cuyahoga County Public Library, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland State University and Flair Corporation.

CBLH prides itself on listening to client needs and requests to create the ideal space for each individual company or organization. “We’re very attuned to customer service,” says Tim Hunsicker, AIA, who serves as a partner of CBLH along with Marc Bittinger, AIA, and Michael Liezert, AIA. Moving from its existing Middleburg Heights offices to another facility on Freeway Circle gave the CBLH team a chance to satisfy its own needs for optimal space.

In moving to a different facility, CBLH had four goals in mind: create a new image in keeping with the firm’s attention to form and function, establish an environment that reflects a focus on collaboration between team members and clients, design a financially efficient space and establish a distinct firm identity. The first challenge in meeting this goal was finding the ideal location.

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