CORNERSTONE DESIGN-ARCHITECTS MOVES TO HISTORIC POST OFFICE AT 48-50 WEST CHESTNUT STREET IN LANCASTER CITY

New employee owners relocate office in Lancaster City

LANCASTER, PA (November 6, 2007) Lancaster-based architectural firm of Cornerstone Design-Architects moved on November 1, 2007, to a new primary office in the former Lancaster Post Office at 48-50 West Chestnut Street, Suite 400, Lancaster, PA 17603. Phone and fax numbers are also new: Phone: 717.435.1800 and Fax: 717.435.1801. The firm’s mailing address has also changed, and is different from the street address: PO Box 1786; Lancaster, PA 17608.

Driving directions to the new office are available from cornerstonedesign.com. Ample client parking will be available behind the office building accessible from both Prince and West Chestnut Streets.

About Cornerstone Design-Architects: Cornerstone Design-Architects, a Lancaster PA architectural firm with architects who are registered to practice in 19 states including Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, offers extensive experience and talent in both design and construction. Cornerstone Design-Architects specializes in creative and adaptive architectural designs for new construction, renovations, historical preservations, redesign, remodeling and additions. Cornerstone Design Architects provides customized drawings, renderings, campaign collateral and walk through animations for churches, worship spaces, private schools, college design, Christian educational facilities, auditoriums, classrooms, gymnasiums and fitness centers, dormitories, theatres, performing arts centers, healthcare facilities and medical office buildings, commercial and industrial buildings.

Cornerstone Design-Architects has grown into a cutting-edge, yet client-driven design firm during its 17-year history. The firm was originally incorporated under the name of W.N. Marsh Associates Ltd. Architects in January of 1990, as an affiliate of The Horst Group. In February of 1995, the company name was changed to Cornerstone Design Ltd. Architects. In January 1997, Dale R. Yoder, AIA, was named President and in June 1997 became a fifty percent owner of the firm. In May 2007, Cornerstone Design-Architects began a new era of employee ownership with a goal of providing even more dedicated levels of client commitment. Buying out Horst Group's 50% share of ownership, the four managing partners now include Dale R. Yoder, A.I.A. President; Rick Walker, A.I.A., C.C.S., Vice President; John O. Yoder, III, A.I.A., Director of Design & Construction Services; and Julie R. Parker, Business Manager.