Two newspaper facility designers joined forces to form a new company that will concentrate on the construction needs of small and mid-sized newspapers in the Western United States.

Denver-based ArcWest Architects Inc., is led by Kevin H. Anderson and Todd Heirls, each of whom has more than 15 years’ experience in newspaper facility architectural design.  

Todd Heirls and Kevin Anderson at ArcWest’s Denver office.
Photo: ArcWest Architects

“We’ll solicit work from everywhere, but we see a need for a firm to be located in the West that can concentrate on smaller and medium-sized newspapers,” said Anderson, who was a senior architectural designer at Dario Designs Inc. before founding ArcWest.

 

Heirls, meantime, was an associate vice president at Austin Aecom and leader of the firm’s facilities design group in Denver.

The two have worked on such diverse projects as Detroit Newspapers, the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel and the Bozeman (Mont.) Daily Chronicle.