Construction is almost finished on a 16,000-square-foot flexible-use office building in Meridian. The VengaWorks Venture Center will allow businesses to use the space they need for the time they need it (whether it be years or hours) and not pay for anything more.
“It gives small businesses an alternative to meeting at a coffee shop or to going to a hotel and renting out a banquet hall,” said Venga Ventures LLC CEO Mark Gilbreath. “It has the prestige to warrant bringing clients there.”
Companies can combine uses of the space in creative ways. For example, a manager can have a permanent office with a door while a number of employees share a few desks to use when they need a quiet workspace. That workspace can be shared either within the company or among several companies.
He said the building’s design, done by Erstad Architects, was uniquely tailored to fit the building’s flexible, scalable intent.
“This was a highly designed building,” he said. “We were trying to reinforce the concept of modular flexibility in the designs and forms of the building. … It’s not your typical Treasure Valley building.”
Gilbreath said the building’s modern look would make it at home in San Francisco, Seattle or Manhattan.
The developers are aiming for LEED certification at as high a level as possible, and they’re making the building a sort of working museum for sustainability features. There will be clear paneled cutouts in the walls to show the blue-jean insulation, signs describing the careful choice of materials, glass panels on the floors to show the energy-efficient HV/AC system and visible sustainably harvested timbers in the ceiling.
The business center will open in early October at a site the developers found to be the center of the Treasure Valley’s geographic, economic and population distribution – on Overland between Meridian and Linder roads.
“If your business is aspiring to serve the broader valley, we think this is the ideal location. It’s smack-dab in the middle,” Gilbreath said.
Prices range from $99 a month for virtual space to $850 a month for permanent space. For more information, go to vengaworks.com.
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