Leisure / Fitness
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- Who
- Shoeless Joe’s Welland
- Location
- North Welland, ON
- Completed
- March 2008
- Products
- 3x3 Infinite Plasma, Crestron control including touch panels, Extron HD component matrix switchers, LG and now NEC plasmas (42”, 20” and 15”) on Peerless mounts, Channel Plus RF modulators and RF distribution amps, TOA ceiling speakers and weather proof wall mounted speakers and also Crown and now BiAmp amplifiers.
About Shoeless Joe's
Shoeless Joe's is one of the largest Sport Theme Casual Dining Restaurant chains in Ontario with more than 30 locations across the province.
Established in 1985, the chain of restaurants wanted to change the look of its new establishments, creating a more pleasant environment for their customers. The opening of Shoeless Joe's Welland was an ideal opportunity to implement this new design, an AV evolution to their chain of restaurants.
Project Details
Owning a restaurant or bar is a very competitive business. The atmosphere and visual dynamics of the place sets one place from another, and creating a pleasant environment for their customers is a priority.
Shoeless Joe's wanted to change the restaurant business by implementing an "AV facelift" in its new establishments. The goal is to re-invent the face of sports bar - to excite old clients as well as bring in new ones. Advanced Products Group was up for the challenge.
The Advanced Solution
Infinite Plasma walls have been adopted by various companies and restaurants to create that "WOW" factor among their customers. Last year, Shoeless opened their newly revamped restaurant in Niagara Falls Canada. Advanced installed 37 flat panel TVs throughout the restaurant covering all areas such as the bar, upstairs/downstairs dining rooms, aisles and stairways which included TVs in every booth for private viewing of the game. Wanting to outdo the Niagara restaurant, Sir Corp contracted Advanced to install the Infinite Plasma in its Welland location.
According to General Manager Jordan Fois, the popular Welland eatery boasts of having the "biggest plasma TV in the region". The 3x3 Infinite Plasma is accompanied by several other screens which surround the restaurant, and all the booths have built-in TVs providing the ultimate dining/viewing experience.
As summer is quickly approaching, they are even preparing to equip their patio with the AQUiVO LCDs so that sports fans will be able to soak up some sun or enjoy the warm evening weather, while still keeping tabs on their favourite sport teams. "We're the only restaurant/bar in Niagara with outdoor plasma TVs", says Fois.
With the success of this installation, Sir Corp decided to contract APG to install on 3 additional locations - Milton, Orangeville and Oakville, with future plans to install in Ottawa
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- Who
- Shoeless Joe's Niagara
- What
- Flat screen and sound system installation across the restaurant
- Location
- Fallsview Casino, Niagara Falls, ON
- Completed
- 2007
- Role
- Consultation, Design and Installation
About Shoeless Joe's
Shoeless Joe's is one of the largest Sport Theme Casual Dining Restaurant chains in Ontario with more than 30 locations across the province.
The chain of restaurants wanted to change the look of its new establishments, creating a more pleasant environment for their customers. The opening of Shoeless Joe's Niagara Falls was an ideal opportunity to implement this new design, an AV evolution to their chain of restaurants.
The Installation
Advanced conducted the installation of 37 x flat panel TVs throughout the restaurant covering all areas such as the bar, upstairs/downstairs dining rooms, aisles and stairways which included TVs in every booth for private viewing of the game.
Incredible (JBL) audio was installed throughout the first and second floor bar and dining area and outdoor patio. In addition, attenuators were set to control sound to allow for intimate conversations to take place.
The main installation was completed in under a month, just in time for the Stanley Cup finals!
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- Who
- Columbia Lake Health Club
- What
- Flat screen and audio system in workout rooms
- Location
- Research & Technology Park, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Completed
- 2007
- Design Co.
- Advanced Presentation Solutions
- General Contractor
- Maple Reinders
- Products - Toshiba LCD displays, Extron transmitter / receivers, JBL speakers, Crown amplifiers, Shure mics
About Columbia Lake
Columbia Lake Health Club is a state-of-the-art full-service fitness facility that is independently owned and operated in Waterloo, Ontario. Columbia Lake Health Club was created in order to meet the needs identified by some of the top employers in Waterloo. RIM, Open Text, Sybase, Miller Thomson, University of Waterloo and Communitech all contributed their ideas to the planning of Columbia Lake Health Club and the TechTown facility.
The Installation
Opening in early 2007 and in the middle of the Research & Technology Park, the founders of Columbia Lake Health Club wanted a state-of-the-art facility that would stand out from the typical recreational facilities. Audio visual systems were designed into all areas of the club including the main entrance and atrium, cardio mezzanine, women's only area, spin room, aerobics Room, palates room as well as the change rooms.
The solutions specified ranged from room to room based on the focus of the respective area. A facility wide paging system and complete AV rack was installed at the head end for central control. The main entrance features multiple Toshiba LCD displays and Extron VGA transmitter / receivers. The larger cardio mezzanine features 7 ceiling mounted Toshiba LCD displays and Broadcast Vision FM transmitters while the women's only area features another 3 Toshiba displays. The spin, aerobics and palates rooms all include independent audio systems built around the use of JBL speakers, Crown amplification and Shure wireless mics.
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- Who
- Loose Moose Tap & Grill
- Location
- Toronto, ON
- Completed
- September 2007
- Design Co.
- Advanced Presentation Solutions
- General Contractor
- Maple Reinders
- Products
Infinite Plasma, Crestron control system (CP2E control unit and a TPS-4000L rack mounted touch panel), Kramer Scan Converters and Video Distribution Amplifiers (VP-502xl, 103YCB & PT-102S),an Altinex 16x32 component video with stereo audio Matrix Switcher, Channel Plus modulator and RF distribution amplifiers, Audio Authority video to HD scalers and Middle Atlantic Equipment racks.
About Loose Moose
SIR, which stands for Service Inspired Restaurants®, is a privately held Canadian corporation in the business of creating, owning and operating full service restaurants in Canada. SIR currently owns and operates a diverse portfolio of restaurants that have been characterized by SIR as Concept Restaurants and Signature Restaurants. Loose Moose is part of their Signature restaurants and are one-of-a-kind brands that range in offerings from fine dining with award winning menus to a very active sports bar in Toronto's entertainment district. Each of these restaurants is located in a prime downtown Toronto site. With its high-energy, carefree atmosphere and a perfect mix of current and classic rock, the Loose Moose is considered one of Toronto's hottest bars.
The Installation
The scope of work was to join and update the two previously separate restaurants - The Armadillo upstairs and the Loose Moose downstairs into the new Loose Moose. The upstairs is now the main bar/dining area with a live DJ, Plasma Video wall and stage area for weekend bands, while the downstairs is more focused on being the "Sports Bar" with multiple monitors and the plasma Video wall as the main attraction behind the bar.
SIR Corp hired contractors to install a new staircase which now joins the two levels and also houses a new DJ booth above the staircase landing. Our two equipment racks are located on this landing behind the DJ.
It was decided to re-use the two existing audio systems since they were still functioning. The audio equipment upstairs had to be removed from behind the bar and re-installed into the new equipment racks. This meant disconnecting and documenting the old install which consisted of equipment sitting on many shelves under the main bar.
We then had to re-route and extend all of the audio and video cables from the bar to the new rack location as well as pull new audio and video cables to any new equipment locations.
Other requirements included moving a video projector to the other side of the bar to project onto a brick wall upstairs, installing two client supplied speakers at the stage area and a new amplifier into the rack to feed these speakers. New outdoor speakers were also installed to replace two older faulty speakers. A 3x3 MPDP video wall was installed behind the bar on each level and both can display up to 9 different images as well as various magnifications of any source at any time. All of the existing monitors on both levels can now display any of the new sources as well. The sources are 9 new HD cable TV receivers, 2 DVD players and 2 channels of PC Music graphics.
Audio can be sent to both levels from the upstairs DJ mixer or from the downstairs DJ mixer if need be. All video and audio switching is controlled from the rack mounted touch panel at the upstairs DJ position.
HD video is sent through the main switcher. All sources are either HD to start with or they are up converted to HD before being sent to the switcher. The HD outputs are sent directly out to the MPDP video walls and to the HD ready plasmas but are down converted and sent as video or RF feeds to all other bar monitors.
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