The Urban Tall

Mi Dia restaurant patio, Dallas, TX

In 2008 we fabricated a custom Urban planter for a retail mall project in Florida. The planter was designed to hide bollards, so was designed specifically to be the same size as our 24″ square, but 48″ tall.  Once that project was complete, we adapted the tool for our own use – and the Urban Tall planter was born.

The pot is something of a “red-headed stepchild”.  It is has different proportions than the rest of the Urban Collection, and so only garners one line in our marketing materials. Nevertheless, it has become one of our more popular planters.  Although it doesn’t get much attention, we felt it deserves it’s own post.

The planters in the image above and below were specified & installed by GHA Architecture/Development of Dallas, TX. The Mi Dia From Scratch restaurant, and the neighboring Winewood Restaurant (both located in Grapevine) used the URT-2400 with our CWC-R1850 container irrigation self-watering insert.  All the containers were delivered in the T-0 texture in black.

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