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Your First Choice for Food and Beverage.

From neighborhood cafés to vibrant restaurant renovations, Summit creates spaces designed to bring people together. Our food and beverage experience spans hospitality interiors, retail environments, adaptive reuse, and production-focused spaces. From the warehouse to storefront to tableside service, we know how to cater a space to the clients needs.

Hospitality.

Our team brings extensive commercial architecture expertise to restaurant and hospitality environments, combining a strong background in retail, adaptive reuse, tenant upfits, and mixed-use commercial design with specialized experience delivering distinctive dining destinations.

Retail.

Summit possesses extensive commercial architecture expertise to distribution and operational facilities, combining experience in warehouse renovations, production-oriented environments, site evaluations, and facility planning with a practical understanding of workflow and scalability. From adaptive reuse projects to upgraded logistics and storage spaces, we help clients create functional environments that support efficiency, flexibility, and evolving operational needs.

Distribution.

Our team brings extensive commercial architecture expertise to distribution and operational facilities, combining experience in warehouse renovations, production-oriented environments, site evaluations, and facility planning with a practical understanding of workflow and scalability. From adaptive reuse projects to upgraded logistics and storage spaces, we help clients create functional environments that support efficiency, flexibility, and evolving operational needs.

About Summit.

Our firm was founded in 1997 under the name Callemyn-Parker, Inc. It would later be acquired by Sear-Brown Group, Inc. in 2001. In 2004, Sear-Brown Group is dissolved, and Summit Design and Engineering is established. Since then, we have cultivated our expertise to expand what we can offer to our clients. While we have experienced significant growth, Summit remains a compact architectural and
engineering firm built to offer clients the most current technology, innovative design solutions, and comprehensive project management for turn-key delivery.

Our firm has expanded geographically to meet our clients where they are located. We have a variety of offices across North Carolina, from our headquarters in Raleigh to branch offices in Hillsborough, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Asheville, and Wilmington. We also have branch offices outside North Carolina in Richmond, Franklin, South Boston, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; and Tampa, Florida. We are licensed to practice across 13 states, with our roster expanding every year. 

Contact

Michael Celauro, AIA, NCARB
Principal Architect

919.322.0115 || michael.celauro@summitde.com