November 8, 2023
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by John Caulfield | Building Design + Construction
Over the past year or so, California-based AO has enjoyed a bump in its retail design assignments that, according to its Managing Partner Rob Budetti, can be attributed mostly to retail being integrated into larger mixed-use projects—one of the leading retail design trends today.