Cuhaci & Peterson Architects Completes Design of a new LEED Certified Element hotel at Fashion Square Mall

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Cuhaci & Peterson Architects Engineers Planners, based in Orlando’s Baldwin Park, recently completed the design of a 151-room Element Hotel at Fashion Square Mall on E. Colonial Drive in Orlando. Lonnie Peterson, chairman at Cuhaci & Peterson, said construction is expected to get underway on the hotel in early 2014. The project will be LEED certified, and total construction cost is estimated at more than $10 million, Peterson said. The design contract was awarded to Cuhaci & Peterson by Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the developer of Element.