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| Rendering of The Quad Redevelopment, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Curt Kremer |
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – A joint
venture between EverWest Real Estate Partners and WHI Real Estate Partners L.P.
(WHIREP) has earned unanimous approval by the Scottsdale City Council for a
zoning modification, and has started construction on The Quad, a major 13-acre,
14-building redevelopment project that blends elements of a lifestyle center
and office park to create a next-generation creative office community.
The project is located at
the northwest corner of 64th Street and Thomas in Scottsdale, Arizona.
“The Quad is the
real-world application of buzzwords like ‘casual collisions’ and ‘horizontal
connections’ – an approach that lessens the normally harsh separation between
indoor and outdoor space.
“This is something that is
still new to metro Phoenix but that has achieved great success in high-density
markets like San Diego, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley,” said Curt Kremer, Managing Principal –
Equity Ventures for EverWest. “We are excited to bring this concept to the
Valley.”
Over the next six months,
EverWest and WHIREP will transform The Quad (formerly Scottsdale Executive
Villas) into 166,606 square feet of creative office space across 14 stand-alone
buildings.
Office suites will range
from 2,000 to 12,500 square feet, and include private outdoor workspaces and
sliding patio doors that create a true indoor-outdoor work environment.
Buildings at The Quad will be connected by park-styled courtyards and seating
areas that EverWest will activate with free, property-wide Wi-Fi.
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| Amr Ceran |
Along with shell delivery,
EverWest and WHIREP will build out six speculative creative suites totaling
approximately 38,000 square feet.
These suites will be equipped with open style
collaboration spaces, focus rooms, huddle rooms, standard glass offices, open
ceilings, break rooms, coffee bars and an innovative finish palate.
“This is a 1980s-built
project that we are taking down to the structure,” said Kremer. “When you do
this, you expose architectural features like high ceilings, raw concrete
masonry walls and beautiful wood beams – elements that tenants today love and
that we are excited to preserve and to mix with cutting-edge designs that are
being developed by the Gensler interiors team in Denver.”
A central,
4,500-square-foot gathering facility called The Q will anchor The Quad,
providing tenants with state-of-the-art conference and event space, a full
catering kitchen, private tenant liquor cabinets and lounge seating that can
accommodate activities ranging from corporate training to holiday parties.
The Q will also include a
tenant-exclusive fitness center with showers and lockers, and an on-site full
service restaurant. The owners are in discussions with several popular, local
restaurant operators interested in the space.
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| The Quad planned interior |
“Unlike traditional
buildings, where workers make a beeline from the parking lot to their desks,
every element of The Quad is meant to connect and network tenants, and foster
an environment where companies develop relationships and share ideas,” said Amr Ceran, Senior Director for
EverWest. “They can work not only in their office, but also in our common areas
or on their patio, under a canopy of 30-year-old trees.”
The Quad maintains a
direct connection to the Cross-Cut Canal multi-use path, and will incorporate a
striped lane to transition cyclists from the paved path to The Quad property,
where there will be multiple bike parking areas.
The pet-friendly campus will
also offer dedicated, fenced-in dog parks for those wanting to bring their pets
to work.
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| Bryan Taute |
The Quad is located
approximately three miles from the Loop 101 and Loop 202 freeways, two miles
from Old Town Scottsdale and is minutes from Sky Harbor International Airport,
Arizona State University and downtown Tempe.
The architect for The Quad
is Denver-based Gensler. The general contractor is Phoenix-based RSG Builders. Bryan Taute and Charlie von Arentschildt of
CBRE are the project’s exclusive leasing brokers.
For more information on
The Quad, visit www.thequadscottsdale.com or call Kremer or Ceran at
602.274.4433.
Other active EverWest
redevelopment projects in Arizona include The Madison in Phoenix, The Forum in
Gilbert and, most recently, The Circuit, a 185,000-square-foot adaptive reuse
project in Tempe that was recently 50 percent leased to New York-based health
insurance company, Oscar.
For a complete copy of the company’s news release,
please contact:
Stacey Hershauer
focusAZ
Marketing & Public
Relations
(480) 600-0195
