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Many clients had begun to delayu building projects for architects inthe region; others scaledr back or stopped booking new constructiojn all together, Scherr says. But, despite sign s of a coming economic he split from the Architectural Group in Decembet 1999 and now seems to be doing well onhis own. Alan Scherdr Associates LLC generated $420,000 in billings afterd its first year of business and could reac that levelthis year, according to The firm landed several projects in including design of the $6.
5 million Dayton View the $500,000 People's Saving Bank Branch in Troy and redesigj of Sinclair Community College's learning Although that billing put Alan Scherr Associatea at the bottom of the Dayton Businessd Journal's 25 largest architecturap and engineering firms -- No. 1 Woolpert LLP billed $25.9 million in 2000 -- Scherr says his new firm got off to agood "Our goal is not to have many but to get a few good clientss with multiple projects," Scherr said. A huge part of Scherr's succesx comes from relationshipsthe D.C., native has developeds since he came to Dayton 28 yearas ago.
His term as president of from 1990 to in particular, enabled him to land clients such as Sinclair Communitu College, he said. "Dayton has a high number of very good architects for a marketits size," Schert said. "You become successful by developing relationshipswith people." Scherdr also credits his success to his ability to offe client services not traditionally associatedc with design and architecture. For the firm helps clients with movingtheire offices, choosing new furniture, and designing computetr networks. "No longer can architects just providse design of space servicefor clients," Scherr said. "Our expertise must be broader.
" According to Rex Woolpert LLP chiefoperating officer, many architects are diversifyingb their practices to create nichr markets. "I think in any business there's goinf to be competition and someone has to offersomethinb that's different from anybody else," Cowdem said. "I think what he is trying to do is to createa full-serviced firm." Scherr and Rick Holmes founded the Architecturak Group in 1990. TAG's billings were $1.4 millioj last year, ranking it 19th on DBJ's list.