According to Tom Stokes, The Lumberyard is just one more example of how EpiCity really maximizes the benefit for both the customer and the client. EpiCity manages the 68,000 square feet office loft project at 1425 Ellsworth Drive in the Midtown West area of Atlanta.
EpiCity has a team of designers, remodelers and builders who create customized space for its tenants, and recently created the perfect office space for Veritas Inc., a sales and marketing firm, with clients such as AT&T and many telecommunications and energy Fortune 100 companies.
“EpiCity set us up with a design team and gave us a layout of the open, empty space,” said Rockelle Holcomb of Veritas Inc. “We were able to sit down together and figure out how to meet our needs. We wanted a more contemporary space and EpiCity was able to match our tempo and tone.”
Veritas had been located just five miles away, and was going through an expansion. The company’s executives also wanted a creative alternative to a traditional office building. The Lumberyard is an adaptive reuse project consisting of converting a 40-year-old warehouse and light manufacturing facility into an office loft development, which was just the right ambiance that Veritas’ staff was looking for in their new offices.
“One of the main reasons we chose the Lumberyard was for its vibe,” said Holcomb. “It has a trendy, lofty, fun feel to it, which is what we were really looking for when it came to our new space.”
The new space is 2,800 square feet, which seemed a great fit for their offices, and they needed some unique characteristics in the space.
“They wanted a very open feeling, but they also have a couple of functions that they perform in the space that require privacy, so we were able to build some uniquely shaped and partitioned rooms that are able to serve the exact needs of their requirements,” said Stokes.
The original space had two offices and a conference room. EpiCity’s team added two more offices and a reception area, as well as a large training room, and conference area in the middle.
“Watching the construction go from nothing to something has been amazing,” said Holcomb. “Seeing how our offices developed over a couple of months is really cool. The conference room in the center, the meeting room and lobby (complete with a Pac Man machine!), both with large open areas with glass walls, and then private offices created exactly what we wanted.”