Need advice on renovating my building

[James W.]

I need some advice on renovating my building. I recently bought this 8500 sq ft commercial office building with approximately 10 suites in San Diego. The buiding is about 1 mile from the beach. It was built in 1975 and looks very run down. I would like to renovate it to look modern but do not know where to start. Do I need to hire an architect?

Some ideas I had was to stucco the whole building, add spanish red tile roof, make a larger nice sign facing the street.

Anyone with experience renovating commercial buildings?

Below is the link for a picture of the property:
http://s1360.photobucket.com/user/molarband/media/building_zps68b454eb.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0#/user/molarband/media/building_zps68b454eb.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0&_suid=136867695256005613242336101308