Cornerstone Church
J.E Travis Painting, Inc. and Travis Millwork completed this project.
General Contractor: JC Stoddard Construction
Owner: Cornerstone Church
Timeline: 2024-2025
Cornerstone Church’s Community Expansion is what happens when a congregation outgrows itself in the best possible way. The project added a massive covered structure to the existing sanctuary campus that connected what had previously been separate buildings into one cohesive community complex. Where churchgoers once walked outside between the fellowship hall, the kids area, and other facilities, they now move freely under a single cover through glass corridors, past exposed steel, and around multi-level gathering areas that include a kids auditorium, a full kitchen, multiple mezzanine levels, and one of the largest meeting spaces in the building. J.E. Travis Painting and Travis Millwork were on site for six to seven months delivering the finish package across all of it, from the painted surfaces throughout the structure to the custom millwork that defines the character of the space.
A project this layered does not have a single hard problem. It has dozens of them running simultaneously. The painting scope required cherry picker lifts to reach the three and four tier coffered ceilings throughout the expansion, and the crews had to coordinate constantly with millwork installation happening in the same spaces. On the millwork side, Doug Han designed a two-story Tree of Life that anchors the new entrance to the kids area, a structure that had to be engineered on the shop floor, broken into pieces, transported to the site, and assembled in the field by Ambrose and Roger’s installation crews without a blueprint for how something like that gets built. Elevator surrounds, custom curved paneling, cabinetry, and reception desks ran throughout the building alongside the Tree of Life installation, all moving in sequence while the painting crews worked overhead and around them.
The Community Expansion at Cornerstone now stands as one of the most complete examples of what Travis Companies can deliver when painting and millwork operate as a single coordinated team rather than two separate subcontractors working past each other. The coffered ceilings, the Tree of Life, the finished gathering spaces, and the corridors connecting the campus all came together through a team that had worked with Cornerstone and JC Stoddard Construction long enough to know how to solve problems before they became delays. If you have a large religious, civic, or community facility project that needs both painting and custom millwork under one roof, contact Travis Companies to talk through what your build requires.
