Get to know Arctans

Exceptional Dealership Facility Design

Unlike most architecture firms, Arctans tries to be involved with dealers before they enroll in factory image programs. We can work with you to help establish project requirements early so that your needs are driving the design process and not generic corporate image guidelines.

We’ll listen to how you run your business and help you figure out how to implement your operation within factory guidelines. With 20 years of dealership design experience and a design portfolio of almost 100 auto dealerships, we can also provide you with options and ideas from how other dealers have dealt with similar issues.

Arctans is small enough to provide a personal approach tailored to your needs and big enough to handle complex, multi-facility projects. We’ve done projects that range in size from a half-million-dollar renovation to a 30-million-dollar automall.

We design dealerships for industry-leading brands.

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Meet Doug Emert

Doug Emert is the president of Arctans Dealer Facility Design. He has 20 years of experience working in the field of dealership design and construction. Before starting Arctans, Doug worked for 10 years as the in-house architect at a construction company that specialized in building auto dealerships and 5 years of experience before that at an architecture firm with an automotive specialty. He has been involved in close to 100 automotive-related projects in his professional career.

Doug has traveled through the United States representing auto manufacturers as a field designer, implementing their corporate image programs. He is familiar with most factory programs and understands good, effective brand imaging. At the same time, he understands the importance of dealer operations and knows that a good design is tailored to the way your business operates.

Architects and contractors have different ways of thinking about projects and different roles to fill in a successful project. Doug’s experience working both at a construction office and at the drafting table gives him insight into the importance of quality and cost and how value is the intersection of the two. He has enough nuts-and-bolts experience from his time working in the construction industry to know how to keep costs down and change orders to a minimum.

Doug has a BS degree from Muskingum College in English and Philosophy and an M.Arch degree from The Ohio State University. He’s licensed in eight states and is NCARB certified for reciprocal registration throughout the US.

Arctans Projects

Dealerships

Arctans, LLC has worked on dealerships all across the United States. See some of our projects on this interactive map.

Portfolio Projects

image of Matt Castrucci Honda
Dayton, OH

Matt Castrucci Honda

image of Superior Toyota
Parkersburg, WV

Superior Toyota

image of Kia of Beavercreek
Beavercreek, OH

Kia of Beavercreek

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