What Hoch Associates does

Hoch Associates, P.C. is a Fort Wayne, Indiana-based architecture, engineering, and interior design firm incorporated in 1994 by James R. Hoch. The firm specializes in "Total Turnkey Design Services," delivering complete professional services from concept through completion for complex, budget-driven, and schedule-driven projects across Healthcare, Telecommunications, and Commercial verticals, with additional work in Education, Public/Civic, and Specialty Engineering. Since its founding, the organization states it has collaborated on projects spanning over 45 states and three countries, building a portfolio that includes mixed-use developments (The Riverfront at Promenade Park Apartments, ~630,000 sq ft), parking infrastructure (Skyline Garage — a six-story, 1,100-space facility in downtown Fort Wayne that won a 2016 ENR Best of the Midwest award), healthcare facilities (K21 Health Pavilion), educational buildings (Fox Island Nature & Education Center, Fort Wayne Community Schools projects), and telecommunications infrastructure.

The firm operates as a privately held professional corporation with 1-10 employees and no disclosed external investors or parent company. Its go-to-market is enterprise field sales executed through direct professional engagement, RFP processes, and strategic partnerships with developers, municipalities, and organizations. Revenue is generated through project-based professional services fees, with pricing structured on a per-project basis. Notable clients and partners include Ash Brokerage, Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission, Barrett & Stokely, Studio M Architecture and Planning, Dillion Construction Group, MSKTD & Associates, and Michael Kinder and Sons. The firm emphasizes a "Client For Life" relationship philosophy and a "Powerful Ideas" branding approach, distinguishing itself from larger competitors through a community-embedded family-style operating model.

Name

Hoch Associates

Legal name

Hoch Associates, P.C.

Website

https://hochassoc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hoch Associates is a Fort Wayne, Indiana-based architecture, engineering, and interior design firm founded in 1994 that provides Total Turnkey Design Services for Healthcare, Telecommunications, and Commercial clients across North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Wayne

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Design Services: Revenue generated through architectural, engineering, and interior design professional services for commercial, healthcare, education, public/civic, specialty engineering, and telecommunications projects. Services include master planning and total turnkey design solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Hoch Associates provides architecture, engineering, and interior design professional services for Healthcare, Telecommunications, and Commercial business sectors across North America. The firm specializes in 'Total Turnkey Design Services', delivering complete architectural, master planning, and interior design solutions for complex, budget-driven, and schedule-minded projects from concept through completion.

Product overview

Hoch Associates is an architecture, engineering, and interior design firm providing Total Turnkey Design Services. The firm specializes in mixed-use/multi-family apartment design, healthcare facilities, commercial buildings, parking garages, nature centers/education facilities, schools, public/civic projects, telecommunications infrastructure, and specialty engineering. Services include architectural design, master planning, and interior design solutions delivered through collaborative project teams.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Total Turnkey Design Services A complete professional design engagement model delivering architecture, engineering, master planning, and interior design for complex, budget-driven, and schedule-minded projects from concept through completion. Targeted at enterprise healthcare, telecommunications, and commercial clients throughout North America.
• Architectural Design Services Professional architectural design for healthcare facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, commercial and mixed-use buildings, education facilities, parks, civic projects, and specialty engineering. Targeted at enterprise and government clients.
• Interior Design Services Professional interior design solutions delivered alongside architectural services for healthcare, commercial, and civic clients.
• Master Planning Services Master planning services supporting complex, multi-phase development projects for enterprise, municipal, and developer clients.
• Specialty Engineering Design Services Specialty engineering design, including structural systems (e.g., precast concrete) used to accelerate project schedules. Targeted at clients needing schedule- and budget-driven engineering solutions such as parking structures.

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects completed in over 45 states and 3 countries

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Barrett & StokelycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeveloper partner for The Riverfront at Promenade Park Apartments project. Hoch Associates worked with Barrett & Stokely along with Studio M Architecture and Planning and Dillion Construction Group on this nearly 630,000 square foot mixed-use development featuring 230 residential apartments and a 900-car parking garage.
• Studio M Architecture and PlanningcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitecture and planning partner working alongside Hoch Associates on The Riverfront at Promenade Park project in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• Dillion Construction GroupcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerConstruction partner for The Riverfront at Promenade Park Apartments project. Part of the project team including Hoch Associates, Barrett & Stokely, and Studio M Architecture and Planning.
• MSKTD & AssociatescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitects/engineers for Ash Brokerage portion of the Skyline Garage project. Working closely with MSKTD & Associates enabled a seamless delivery and coordination process between the garage and the Ash office complex.
• Michael Kinder and SonscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign Build partner with Hoch Associates for Northeast Indiana Public Radio (WBOI/WBNI) new radio station building project located at 210 East Jefferson Street in downtown Fort Wayne. Expected completion 2019.
• Fort Wayne Redevelopment CommissioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClient for the Skyline Garage project. Hoch Associates served as architects for this 1,100-space, six-story parking facility which sits at the base of Ash Brokerage's new world headquarters, the largest mixed-use construction project in downtown Fort Wayne in decades.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Perkins&Will: International architecture and design firm with major healthcare, higher education, and civic practices. Overlaps directly with Hoch's healthcare and public/civic sector focus at a much larger scale.
• HOK: Large global architecture, engineering, and planning firm with established healthcare, commercial, and civic practices. Provides overlapping design services to enterprise clients as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Stantec: Global multi-disciplinary design and engineering firm with extensive healthcare, commercial, telecommunications, and community development practices. Competes for the same enterprise and government RFPs but with vastly greater scale, capital, and geographic reach.
• SmithGroup: Integrated design firm with strong healthcare, higher education, workplace, and science & technology practices. Comparable multi-sector coverage and Total Turnkey-style integrated delivery at enterprise scale.
• Gensler: Largest global architecture and design firm with deep healthcare, commercial, telecommunications, and workplace practices. Competes for enterprise design engagements at a national scale far beyond Hoch's footprint.

Direct peers

• Wight & Company: Mid-size design-build firm offering architecture, engineering, and construction services to corporate, healthcare, education, and government clients. Comparable integrated delivery model and multi-sector scope to Hoch's Total Turnkey Design Services.
• Design Collaborative: Fort Wayne-based architecture and design firm offering architecture, interior design, and engineering services across healthcare, education, corporate, and community markets. Direct local competitor with comparable multi-disciplinary, regional footprint.
• MSKTD & Associates: Indianapolis-based architecture and engineering firm serving healthcare, education, commercial, and civic clients. Comparable multi-sector scope and mid-market positioning; specifically named alongside Hoch as architect/engineer partner on the Ash Brokerage Skyline Garage project.
• Studio M Architecture and Planning: Named in company data as architecture and planning partner on the Riverfront at Promenade Park Apartments project. Operates as a comparable mid-market architecture firm in the regional Indiana market.
• Elevatus Architecture: Fort Wayne-based architecture firm specializing in healthcare, senior living, education, and community projects. Comparable size, geography, and sector mix; direct local competitor for healthcare and education RFPs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hochassoc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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