What CJMW Architecture does

CJMW Architecture is a privately held architecture and interior design firm founded in 1906 and headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm operates four offices across Winston-Salem and Raleigh, North Carolina, and Lynchburg and Roanoke, Virginia, with a professional staff of 101-250 employees. It delivers integrated architecture and interior design services across multiple institutional and commercial sectors, with senior living as its primary vertical alongside civic and government, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, historic preservation, and commercial development work. Notable project credentials include large-scale civic commissions such as the approximately 250,000-square-foot Forsyth County Courthouse.

The firm generates revenue through a project-based professional services model, with fees tied to individual design commissions rather than subscriptions, licensing, or platform transactions. Its go-to-market is sales-led: principals cultivate direct client relationships, respond to RFPs, and rely on referral networks cultivated over a century of practice. The firm holds widely recognized industry credentials across its staff, including AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, NCIDQ, and RID certifications, and has accumulated repeated AIA, IIDA, and senior living design awards that function as reputational collateral on new pursuits.

In 2024, CJMW completed an ownership transition that brought on six new associate principals, signaling a generational governance refresh. The firm continues to invest in its senior living and healthcare practices, including a 2025 senior project management hire and the build-out of a dedicated Healthcare and Life Sciences practice. The March 2026 death of senior principal Tom Calloway introduces a leadership succession event whose resolution will be material to firm continuity.

Name

CJMW Architecture

Legal name

CJMW Architecture

Website

https://cjmw.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1906

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

CJMW Architecture is a 120-year-old, privately held architecture and interior design firm headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC, with offices in Raleigh, Lynchburg, and Roanoke. It serves institutional and commercial clients, with senior living as its primary vertical alongside civic, healthcare, education, and hospitality work, on a project-based professional services model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural and Interior Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Interior Design Services (541410), Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services (BPAHAKAK)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Interior design services
• Healthcare architecture
• Senior living design
• Historic building renovation

Headquarters

HQ city

Winston Salem

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Project-based fees for architecture, interior design, master planning, andFFE (furniture, fixtures, and equipment) services across multiple market sectors including senior living, healthcare, hospitality, civic, education, and historic preservation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CJMW Architecture is a professional architecture and interior design firm that provides planning, design, and project management services for new construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse projects. The firm serves clients across senior living, healthcare and life sciences, hospitality, civic and cultural, education, and historic preservation market sectors, delivering full architectural services from concept through construction administration.

Product overview

CJMW Architecture is an architecture and interior design firm (not a software/technology company) offering design services through a portfolio of market sector practices. The firm provides architecture and interior design services organized around specialized practice areas: Senior Living (continuing care retirement communities, independent/assisted/memory care), Hospitality (hotels, resorts, historic renovations), Healthcare + Life Sciences, Historic Renovation + Adaptive Reuse, Civic + Cultural Facilities, Education, and Commercial. The firm supports these services with downloadable marketing resources including design brochures, case studies on adaptive reuse and resimercial hospitality design, and corporate project portfolios. Services include master planning, architecture, interior design, and FFE (furniture, fixtures, and equipment).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Senior Living Architectural Design
• Healthcare and Life Sciences Architectural Design

Quantifiable outcome

• Eagle Award from ABC Chapter EIC Awards Ceremony for Forsyth County Courthouse project over $50M
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• S/L/A/M CollaborativeminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAssociate Architect on the Forsyth County Courthouse project, providing additional architectural expertise alongside CJMW as lead firm.
• O'Brien Atkins AssociatesminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAssociate Architect on the Forsyth County Courthouse project, providing additional architectural expertise alongside CJMW as lead firm.
• Balfour BeattyminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerConstruction partner on the Forsyth County Courthouse project over a 5-year period.
• SametminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerConstruction partner on the Forsyth County Courthouse project over a 5-year period.
• Summit Hospitality GroupminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHotel ownership and operating partner for Dunhill Hotel renovation project in Charlotte, NC. CJMW's Interior Design studio engaged for phased refresh of this historic property.
• Rush HomesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit housing developer partner for affordable housing projects. Mike Griffin presented jointly with Rush Homes at Virginia Housing Credit Conference on Florida Terrace project.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• DLR Group: Large national architecture and engineering firm with integrated interiors practice and significant civic, education, and healthcare portfolios — competes with CJMW on civic courthouse, higher education, and senior living opportunities.
• SmithGroup: National integrated architecture, engineering, interiors, and planning firm with established higher education, healthcare, and civic practices — overlaps with CJMW across most segments and is a typical competitor on enterprise RFPs.
• HKS Architects: Major national architecture firm with deep healthcare and civic practices — competes with CJMW in larger civic and healthcare design pursuits where CJMW partners with firms like S/L/A/M and O'Brien Atkins to compete.

Direct peers

• Perkins Eastman: National architecture firm with one of the largest dedicated senior living practices in the U.S., directly competing for CCRC and Life Plan Community master plans and repositioning work that is CJMW's primary segment.
• LS3P Associates: Southeast U.S. architecture firm with multi-office presence across the Carolinas and into Virginia, offering integrated architecture and interior design services across higher education, healthcare, civic, and senior living — closely overlapping CJMW's footprint and practice mix.
• EwingCole: Mid-Atlantic architecture and engineering firm with strong civic/cultural and higher-education practices and a dedicated interiors studio — comparable to CJMW in service breadth and studio-style integrated delivery.
• JLG Architects: Mid-size architecture firm headquartered in North Dakota with growing senior living practice and offices across the U.S., serving CCRC and Life Plan Community clients — directly comparable in scale and senior living focus to CJMW's primary segment.
• RLPS Architects: Pennsylvania-based architecture firm nationally recognized for senior living and continuing care retirement community design — directly comparable to CJMW's primary senior living practice area, though operating in a different geography.
• Clark Nexsen: Mid-Atlantic architecture, engineering, and planning firm with offices across Virginia and the Carolinas, serving civic, higher education, healthcare, and senior living clients — comparable in geographic reach and market mix to CJMW.
• Little Diversified Architectural Consulting: Charlotte-headquartered architecture firm with comparable size, southeastern U.S. multi-office footprint, and integrated architecture + interiors practice serving healthcare, senior living, corporate, and civic clients — a direct regional competitor to CJMW.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/cjmwarch
• Facebookfacebook.com/cjmw.architecture
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cjmw-architecture
• Instagraminstagram.com/cjmw_architecture

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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