So it's official - we're in the new building! Well...it's sort of official. Half of the company has moved to the new building while the other half will be moving this week. As such, SparkFun customer service and technical support will be out of operations today (Monday, Sept. 8th) but will be back in full-swing tomorrow. However, all orders will be shipping normally - and local pickup will be available at our old building until Sept. 12th.
So shiny...so new!
Things might be a little hectic in general around here until we get fully-settled. You never realize how much "stuff" you have until you try to move it all! Thanks for hanging with us while we complete our move!
How much the building cost?
The whole project was somewhere north of $8.5 million. There's considerable detail in Nate's How to Build a Building blog post from May of 2013. There will undoubtedly be some follow-up with more current details in the near future.
The outside of the new building is kind of boring! I hope you spark it up a bit!
We'll make up for it on the inside. Trust me.
Holding back sobs JL! Some of our more crazy ideas proved to be either too expensive or not-in-line with either the local county codes or with whatever the light-industrial version of an HOA is. Even as a business you gotta make nice with the neighbors. So this is what we get. Rest assured, we've still got some plans to "spark" things up a bit. Stay tuned.
It would be cool if you guys made a "virtual tour" of the new digs. That way the people that can't make it for a tour can do it online.
That is definitely going to happen at some point.
Congratulations!! The building looks great!! May God bless your new location and all of you!!
What is going to happen to the Autonomous Vehicle Challenge? Does the new facility have space to accommodate it?
I believe that they have held the AVC at the Boulder Reservoir for the past 2 years.
White walls with a red stripe on the end.
Enjoy your new "L-Series" building!
Huh?
LOL. They were about the same price.
Congrats! Need to add some giant Sparkfun logos painted on the outside :)
I'm on it, DC! Stay tuned.
I don't like the paint colour, can you change it ?
Death first.
Where is the dog park?
For those curious like me, The large sign sign out front reads: " NO FOOd DrinKS SmoKing " (I thought smoking was sewing in the low res photo, hehe)
and the sign in front of a 5 gallon white bucket: " ASH TRAY USE IT "
Nice looking building too.