One Union Square is located downtown on 6th and University. It's a well maintained building in a prime location given it's close to a variety of shops, restaurants, other businesses, and most people can take one bus to get in the general vicinity of the building.
The building is maintained and cared for by WA Holdings. If there is ever an issue, management is on top of it.
It is not uncommon to see security, the maintenance crew or the custodial crew out and about doing their thing. I've never worried about cleanliness in the common areas or safety since I've been working in this building (it's been 3.25 years). The security crew, by the way, are not only competent in their ability to do their job, but are also very friendly and customer service oriented...which is refreshing.
In addition, the building hosts fire drills and earthquake drills on a frequent (but not too frequent) basis. As one would imagine, office staff tend to giggle and ridicule some of the drills (myself included). However, I do appreciate the time they take to do it. The preparation may come in handy some day.
Some other benefits of being a tenant are the following:
- Health Fair in the spring with free health screenings and massages
- In the summer, there's the Taste of Union Square where most, if not all, of the restaurants in One and Two Union Square provide free tastes of what their restaurant has to offer. Some tastes are more substantial than others, but the servings are always adequate...especially given it's FREE. Very cool. There's also a lunch-time concert series which I've never taken the time to see.
- Around the holidays, they dress up the lobby and one of the mornings around the holiday time they will setup free coffee, pastries, donuts, muffins, cookies, etc. for tenants to consume.
- Common Conference rooms in One Union Square can be booked for free
- One Union Square now has a shower room that tenants can use for a fee
All in all, it's a great building to work in, in a great location.
I don't pay the rent, but I'm guessin' it ain't cheap.
Now for the complaints, are there are only a couple:
If you are a tenant and a pipe bursts or something along the lines of something going wrong in the suite, it typically falls on the tenant to cover the cost...which I think is ridiculous. If the issue is caused by the tenant, fine, charge the tenant. But issues that fall outside the control of the tenant, like a pipe bursting in the ceiling, should fall on building management.
My only other complaint is that it's not always apparent whether our suite has been vacuumed by the custodial staff, or if they simply missed a couple spots. There have been occasions where I've noticed something on the floor at the beginning of the week, and the "something" is still there at the end of the week. I don't know what our contract says, but I imagine the floors are supposed to be vacuumed more than every other week. read more