Principal Presence
The most common complaint about architecture firms in the private commercial market is that the principal who won the work was not the person who delivered it. The client who hired a firm for its principal’s judgment finds themselves working with a project manager they have never met, navigating a permit comment cycle without the person who knows the site, the jurisdiction, or the deadline.
Tomecak Design was built specifically to answer that failure.
He attends the entitlement hearing. He responds to the permit comment. He takes the field call during construction. Experienced senior staff, Andrew and Kelly, communicate directly with clients and manage day-to-day technical coordination. This structure strengthens credibility: clients have both the principal’s oversight and a senior team that knows the project.
His name is on the license, on the drawings, and on the permit applications. His professional reputation is the collateral behind every project the firm takes on.
The 12-year key employee, the decade-plus European production team, and the consultant relationships stable since 2009 across five disciplines are the operational foundation of a firm that delivers the same quality on the tenth project as it did on the first, because the team that learned together on the first project is still together on the tenth.
The firm’s reference program prepares existing clients to describe the principal’s involvement during the phases of the project that clients find most stressful: the entitlement hearing, the permit comment cycle, the construction administration period. References are available on request.
