CommonGrounds Workplace, a workplace-as-a-service company based in San Diego, has leased and renovated the former Orpheum Theater in downtown Salt Lake City and opened it as a shared office space. The entire three-story, 19,792-square-foot historic building at 132 S. State St. in the city’s Regent Theater District has undergone an almost total interior demolition and rebuild. Architectural details of the 115-year-old building have been preserved.
“Salt Lake City’s vibrant, growing enterprise and entrepreneurial community makes it a natural fit for a CommonGrounds Workplace location,” said Jacob Bates, CEO of CommonGrounds and a Salt Lake City native. “This building, the location and nearby amenities has made it a place where highly skilled employees want to work, which helps companies hire and retain talent.”
The Salt Lake City CommonGrounds will serve over 200 members, with configurations available for teams of two to 200, Bates said. Amenities include six conference rooms, a main floor communal pantry and living room and additional social gathering areas on each floor. The entire building now has enterprise-enabled network with gigabit speeds. Invita, an Italian coffee and pastry cafe, will be located on the main floor.
Tiffany Hughey has been hired as the local workplace manager, bringing over 15 years of local real estate experience to the project. She previously worked for Alliance and Greystar in the Salt Lake Valley.
“Building owner Property Reserve Inc. played a pivotal role in our selection of this location,” said Bates. “They are the kind of owner CommonGrounds could scale locally and globally. We work in tandem with real estate owners to help them deliver a variety of real estate services that landlords are not usually able to provide to tenants.”
Rapt Studio helped CommonGrounds with design of the space. St. George-based Westland Construction was the contractor for the renovation.