It seems like Damian Farrell Design Group's client project cup runneth over. The Ann Arbor-based architecture firm is handling a lot of residential remodeling, designing a multi-family project in Saline, working on an adaptive reuse of a historic building in downtown Saline, designing a couple restaurants, and doing work for a shooting range in Ann Arbor.
"We have always had a pretty good variety of work," says Damian Farrell, owner of
Damian Farrell Design Group. "This is just an extension of that."
He estimates his company’s revenue is up 10-15 percent over the last year. It's growth that has allowed him to hire an architect and two interns, expanding his staff to seven employees and two interns.
Farrell points out that the design and building industries are stronger now than they have been in years, and there is a shortage of skilled workers developing in them. He adds the market isn’t as good as it was before the Great Recession but its on its way there.
"We want to continue what we’re doing," Farrell says. "Every market we are working in we are noticing growth."
Source: Damian Farrell, owner of Damian Farrell Design Group
Writer: Jon Zemke
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