UPDATED — HRN Performance Solutions is moving from the High Touch building at 110 S. Main St. to 2,541 square feet at the Farm Credit Bank Building at 245 N. Waco.
“We were just looking for a space that allowed us more collaboration and teamwork,” says vice president Lea Ann Gabbert.
She says as the company expanded in the High Touch space, it resulted in a long, skinny row of offices and cubicles. Gabbert says the new space will be a big square “so that we could all be together.”
The company, which is headquartered in Salt Lake City and provides compensation and performance management solutions for clients nationally, will be in its new space Sept. 24.
Tony Utter of Utter Commercial Real Estate and Don Arnold of NAI John T. Arnold Associates handled the deal.
The lease brings the Farm Credit Bank Building to 100 percent occupancy.
EMC Insurance, which has been at 245 N. Waco in the Farm Credit Bank Building for 16 years, is going to take most of the space Weather Data is vacating this fall.
“As we’ve expanded over the last five to 10 years, we were lucky that the bank had space available, but we’ve ended up with several pockets of space,” says Bernie Zalaznik, EMC’s resident vice president.
The new space will allow the company to consolidate. Instead of having employees in five areas of the building, they’ll now be in only two.
EMC has 31,000 square feet at the building. The company will lose some of its existing space in the consolidation but acquire about 2,000 additional square feet.
“We really wanted to stay here, and we’re glad we were able to make this work out,” Zalaznik says. “We think it’s one of the best places to be in Wichita.”
Weather Data Services, an AccuWeather Co., is getting a new home.
The company is moving from the Farm Credit Bank Building on
Waco to Phil Ruffin’s Bank of America Center at Broadway and Douglas.
“We needed more space,” says Barry Lee Myers, chief executive of AccuWeather in State College, Pa. “We are actually expanding a number of things.”
The new, almost 8,000-square-foot space, where Weather Data will move in the fall, will have a television studio for what Myers calls “live reports from Tornado Alley” on AccuWeather TV (which is similar to the Weather Channel except it has local weather at all times).
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