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Creating environments where senior adults thrive requires more than attractive finishes, it takes a thoughtful approach that blends comfort, functionality, wellness and long-term adaptability. That approach is at the heart of FS Design Group’s work ...

The gist: FS Design Group, a San Diego-based healthcare interior design firm, collaborated with United Medical Doctors and Raymond Fox Associates to design a state-of-the-art, two-story medical clinic in Encinitas, California, led by cardiovascular specialist ...

FS Design Group, a San Diego-based commercial interior design firm, is proud to announce that we are certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation's leading ...

The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation’s (JCNI) iconic Joe & Vi Jacobs Center in southeast San Diego served as a hub for community services and resources. When JCNI decided to move, it was essential to ...

Overview: FS Design Group Principal Amy Tobia shared insights on the future of PACE facility interior design at the 2025 Environments for Aging Conference. Her session emphasized integrating hospitality elements into senior healthcare spaces to ...

Did you catch our leader, Amy Tobia, profiled in The Daily Transcript? Thank you to editor Doug Sherwin for a fun Q&A opportunity for one of San Diego’s star commercial interior designers. If you subscribe ...

Overview: FS Design Group, which specializes in creating thoughtful, ADA-compliant interior environments that blend clinical functionality with comfort and warmth, discusses its latest collaboration with the Center for Elders’ Independence (CEI). FS Design Group helped ...

Overview: San Ysidro Health’s new five-story medical office building in Chula Vista is being thoughtfully designed by FS Design Group to reflect San Diego County’s diverse natural and urban environments. Featuring unique floor-by-floor themes inspired ...

Here’s the gist: Synergy Orthopedics has opened a state-of-the-art, 20,000-square-foot outpatient surgery center in Mission Valley, with interiors designed by FS Design Group. The facility features a calming, hospitality-inspired interior with natural materials and soft ...

Can you feel her influence!? Congrats to our leader Amy Tobia for being named to the 2025 Class of Elite Women of Influence by the national commercial real estate publication GlobeSt! We’re sharing a few ...

Rejuvenate Plastic Surgery has a new look  Healthcare offices and facilities are some of the places where design can have the most profound and important impact. We’re pleased to share about one of our most ...

Thousands of feet of corridor at a rehabilitation facility can make staff, patients and their families feel easily confused, lost and even ​add to their stress​. Interior design plays a crucial role in wayfinding ​and ...

When Vista Community Clinic decided to open its first Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE, it turned to FS Design Group to ensure an interior design that promotes wellness, supports the participants’ ...

We have the best interns at FS Design Group, and we’re excited to share about one who’s working with us right now. Annabelle Widjaja began her internship here as our librarian, managing our design sample ...

Designing for Senior Health and Wellness Requires Specialized Strategies  FS Design Group, a leading San Diego-based interior planning and design firm specializing in commercial and medical office projects, leveraged its expertise to design a new ...

We are thrilled to celebrate FS Design Group Principal Amy Tobia's inclusion on the San Diego Business Journal’s 2024 list of Leaders of Influence in Architecture & Design. The newspaper noted Amy’s success and innovation ...

The Streamlined Issuance Permit Program Can be a Commercial Interior Design Game Changer During September 2023, the City of San Diego rolled out the Professional Certification program for tenant improvements. We saved a month of ...

Consolidated, Customized Space Accommodates Hybrid Work Model for Medical Device Company We loved working on the 50,000-square-foot, $1.5 million space consolidation and redesign of Advanced Bionics’ office in Santa Clarita, California. Within five months, design ...

Late last year, finalists for the San Diego Business Journal’s Business Women of the Year were announced — and FS Design Group Principal Amy Tobia was one of them! Amy is extraordinary for running a ...

San Diego Business Journal includes Amy Tobia as one of its 29 Mentors of the Year for 2024 What’s better than being honored for helping other people succeed!? We’re proud to share that San Diego ...

FS Design Group Professionals Work to Earn NCIDQ Certification NCIDQ is an interior design certification that designers can earn after working in the industry for a number of years and then studying for and passing ...

By Amy Tobia It’s time to re-design or move your business space. Perhaps you have rows of empty cubicles as more employees work remotely. Or maybe you have experienced so much growth in recent years ...

Flock Freight is a FreightTech company revolutionizing the transportation and logistics space by creating a smarter, more sustainable supply chain. The technology they’ve developed and patented makes shipping simpler and more affordable for companies and ...

Visitors from near and far flock to the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park each spring for Art Alive. This stunning exhibition features fresh floral interpretations of some of the Museum’s artworks. Selected ...

Interior Design for a Growing Empire Pure Salon Studios is on a roll, and we’re excited to be along for the ride! Pure Salon Studios Power Team Sandra Alavi and her business partner Vanessa, who ...

Design Reflects Changing Space Requirements of Law Offices Law firm Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Juskie LLP has a beautiful new, 8,000-square-foot home in Regent Properties’ 2 Columbia downtown San Diego building. The Wingert team had ...

After knowing her for years as a savvy product rep, talented designer and an active member of CREW San Diego, we were so excited when we had the chance to bring Laura Vavrunek onto our ...

Creating a place for seniors that feels welcoming and warm, but is also safe and promotes wellness, can be challenging. This is especially true when designing Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) facilities. ...

Shakespeare’s Juliet famously asked, “What’s in a name?” She continued with this provocative thought, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”  During one of our Friday happy hour ...

We are so enthusiastic about the talent on our FS Design Group team. We hope you enjoy getting to know more about one of our talented designers, Leslie Michelle. From the initial client meeting, through ...

For her many design accomplishments and her impact on San Diego’s business, real estate and medical communities, FS Design Group Founder Bre’an Fox was named one of the San Diego Business Journal’s Women of Influence ...

Read About Our Internship Program from an Insider’s Perspective FS Design Group has supported the development of talent in our industry through various internships and CREW San Diego’s mentorship program. We believe it’s important to ...

By Amy Tobia This is a tale of two offices, but one concept.  That concept is the hub office. For companies that can offer workplace flexibility, the hub office is an intriguing idea.  FS Design ...

Two cousins, both Civil War veterans, headed west from Georgia to seek their fortunes. They settled in a lush meadow near the Cuyacama Mountains and founded the Town of Julian. About an hour east of ...

Hospitality Design: Leveling the Seesaw of Challenges Like most of the world, interior designers are on a seesaw that teeters between the desire to return to business as usual and the need to adapt to ...

FS Design Group President Bre’an Fox was named to the _San Diego Metro’_s Women of Accomplishment list for 2022 in recognition for all that she has achieved — both for herself and for the greater ...

After a remarkable 30 years in business, FS Design Group is celebrating new ownership. Longtime team leader Amy Tobia will be taking the reins from Bre’an Fox, who looks forward to her well-earned retirement. While ...

Allowing senior citizens to live at home but receive health services, supervision, meals, social interaction and activities daily is at the heart of the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE. Designing the ...

In a design firm, there are people who like to design things, people who like to teach and people who like to manage the process. FS Design Group Senior Project Manager Amy Tobia likes to ...

Before there was FS Design Group there was Facility Solutions. It was Bre’an Fox’s unique vision 30 years ago to fill a critical need in San Diego’s booming commercial real estate industry. As the industry’s ...

Chances are, when someone is visiting a medical facility, they may not be having a great day. So what if that day can feel just a bit more manageable through the thoughtful and functional design ...

A few lines drawn quickly on paper with a pen can transform an idea-s-into a shared vision-s-. Today, when so much interior design work is done with high-tech computer programs, there is still immense value ...

The managing directors of Sola Salon Studios “can’t open new locations fast enough.” So says Austin Campbell, who holds the franchise rights to Sola Salon Studios in San Diego. Scott Ditsworth, Austin’s sometimes business partner ...

A federal public agency occupying the entire floor of a downtown San Diego office building needed an update that not only made the space look better, but also created better functionality. The challenge for this ...

San Diego Business Journal’s 2021 List Includes the Senior Project Manager Congratulations to FS Design Group Senior Project Manager Amy Tobia on being named a Woman of Influence in Construction, Commercial Real Estate and Design ...

The Annual List Recognizes Women in Commercial Real Estate [GlobeSt.’s annual list](https://www.event.globest.com/womenofinfluenceawards/class-2021) celebrating Women of Influence in Commercial Real Estate includes FS Design Group President Bre’an Fox, who also received special recognition for being a ...

In this new world where people may get a choice about working from home or from the office, landlords face the challenge of making their properties so enticing that working from the office is preferable. ...

COVID-19 has dramatically changed the way we work, accelerating some trends already in place and triggering others. The response from company owners has varied. While some moved swiftly to accommodate long-term work-from-home systems, others employed ...