The MAC
Multi-Assistance Center at Morgan's Wonderland
J.E. Travis Painting, Inc. & Travis Millwork, Inc.
General Contractor: Metropolitan Contracting Company
Owner: The Multi-Assistance Center at Morgan’s Wonderland
Architect: Luna Middleman Architects
Project Size: $1M to $1.25M
Year: 2022
The Multi-Assistance Center at Morgan’s Wonderland is the first fully dedicated multi-assistance facility for individuals with disabilities in the state of Texas. Developer Gordon Hartman, who founded Morgan’s Wonderland as the world’s first ultra-accessible theme park, built the MAC as the next chapter of that mission: a single destination where families can access doctors, lawyers, chiropractors, navigators, and a full range of health and support services without driving across the city for each one. J.E. Travis Painting and Travis Millwork were brought in under Metropolitan Contracting to deliver the finish package across what is, on paper, one building, but in practice is twenty separate tenant spaces, each with its own finish requirements, timeline, and coordination demands.
Twenty tenant spaces does not mean twenty paint colors. It means twenty distinct finish environments, each with their own sequencing, scheduling constraints, and handoff points to other trades. Travis deployed dozens of painters and tape and float crews across the facility simultaneously, running four different colors per space across twenty spaces while coordinating in and out access as each doctor and tenant came online at a different point in the construction schedule. State funding tied to the project came with a hard completion deadline that did not move. The team ran 50-hour weeks and long weekends through the final stretch to hit it. The MAC took five months from start to ribbon cutting.
The MAC opened on time, was covered by local news, and has since been recognized as a model Texas is looking to replicate in other cities. Travis delivered the paint and millwork scope across every one of those twenty spaces without holding up the schedule or creating downstream problems for the tenant buildouts that followed. This project also marked the first job that Project Manager David Roy ran from buyout through closeout. The team that pulled it off is the same team available for your next complex commercial or institutional build. Contact J.E. Travis Painting and Travis Millwork to talk through what your project requires.
