With more than 60 years of combined experience, Art Castellanos, AIA, and Jason Tramonte, AIA, have merged their companies to create Castellanos + Tramonte Architects, a regional architectural firm specializing in commercial design. It opened earlier this year at 1625 S.E. 46th St., Suite 2A, in Cape Coral.
Castellanos is president of the new firm and Tramonte is the founder and project manager. The firm currently employs five people.
Together, the team has designed more than 150 buildings statewide, from the panhandle to Naples. Their design portfolio includes high-profile projects on the Ava Maria University campus in Collier County, as well as fire stations, shopping centers, government buildings, restaurants, 7-Eleven convenience stores and more.
Lee County projects include numerous locations of Culver’s and Rib City, Orion Bank in Cape Coral, Gastroenterology Associates of Southwest Florida, Advanced Pain Management and Spine, Nevermind Restaurant, Laguna Lakes clubhouse, Time Warner Cable, Providence Christian School, Associates in Dermatology, Associates in Digestive Health, Hope Methodist Church and others.
Castellanos has more than 25 years of experience in architecture, working in both public and private settings. He served as the architect for the Lee County School District for 10 years and worked in commercial enterprises such as WCI Communities and McGarvey Development Co. prior to starting his own architectural firm in 2014.
Tramonte has a 37-year career in architecture and has been an owner or principal of a firm bearing his name since 1979. Prior to starting his firm in Cape Coral in 1992, he worked with architectural firms in Florida and Louisiana.
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