ALL AROUND 5 STARS!
I feel as lucky today in finding this office space as I did 3 years ago. I have a boutique recruiting company (I work for and by myself) and have worked successfully in various settings. I had relocated closer to the downtown area and was working at home but felt the need for a change, just couldn't figure out what I wanted. When I called to inquire about this property, I was prepared to hear the recorded and impersonal voice mail recording I'd been experiencing when calling to get more information. Instead, a real person answered! Lynn, who manages the front end reception, took my information and said that Valerie, the Property Manager, would return my call and provide the details I wanted. My call was returned right away and Valerie invited me to come in for a tour that day. I met Lynn and Valerie in person and I felt comfortably welcomed immediately, the same feeling I have every day . It is such a cool thing, to have the same people managing the space several years later. It doesn't matter what I need, Lynn has the answer-fax, mail, phone, parking, selling or buying office furniture inter-office, parties/events, Lynn is there to respond, personally! This is an asset you don't know you are missing until you are here, just knowing the same person will greet you or a your guest, every day; she is someone who knows when you have been away, knows your name, remembers things for you! Valerie manages to keep all 85 tenants as socially engaged as we want to be-networking events and Holiday parties are scheduled so that we can mingle and feel a part of something and she and Lynn make sure that we are aware when an individual tenant has an event to celebrate. The owner and his wife, who are also fabulously kind and generous, bought these buildings around 1970 and they keep the real spirit of Austin, the best of the old along with what we want that is new! I'd like to keep this area a secret but the reality is that the dynamic space is so appealing in part because while some tenants like the Eastside Music School, have been here for years, other tenants are in the "start up" phase and outgrow space over time, making space available for new people...so it says very interesting! The building location is unbeatable but it is the environment that is maintained by Lynn and Valerie that keep the tenants feeling fortunate in signing and resigning the leases, very much a Win- Win cooperative bargain! read more
