Raised Eyebrow Blog

This Friday, January 30th, on the eve of the 9th anniversary of Raised Eyebrow, we’re moving offices. And we couldn’t be more thrilled about it.

It feels like a lifetime ago (though to be fair 9 years is almost a lifetime in technology land) that Lauren and I first ventured out on our own and started Raised Eyebrow. In those days we worked in a corner of her bedroom, soon graduating to taking over half of the livingroom in her basement suite and eventually finding our office space in the Dominion Building. We’ve moved around in this building, first co-habitating with the lovely Lindsay Simmonds, who designed our current logo, and eventually moving into a larger space on the 4th floor as our company grew. We’ve really loved being in this building, we have amazing neighbours and we’re a big fan of the neighbourhood and the heritage qualities of the building itself. That said, we’re pretty excited about starting a new chapter.

The really good news about our new office space is that we’re staying in Gastown (right across the street in fact), are getting a whole bunch of really excellent new building neighbours, while staying very close to all our current building pals. We’re moving into the Flack Block, also known as the Tides Renewal Centre, a heritage building that has been lovingly restored and improved by Robert Fung and Salient Group with interior design by Penner & Associates. The work they’ve done is truly gorgeous and will be such an inspiring place to come and work for all of us. The building also has some really wonderful shared amenities that will be a real plus for all of us: a bike room, showers, storage, shared kitchens on each floor, and some really excellent shared meeting rooms and facilities.

The building was originally constructed in 1898 as a product of Thomas Flack’s success in the gold industry at the end of that century. Historically it has housed jewellers, a basement level bathhouse, a speakeasy, and many many small businesses over the years. In its new incarnation the building will house Renewal Partners, Tides Canada, Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Penner & Associates, Forest Ethics, Rainforest Solutions Project, and of course us. The space we’ve taken is also a bit too roomy for our current needs, and so we’ll be having a few roommates to fill the place up. So far we’ve got Bill Weaver from Across Borders Media moving in, and over the next month we’ll be looking to have a few others join us. (If you’re a solo entrepreneur looking for a desk to rent, do get in touch with me and as the dust settles we’d be happy to talk about having you join us).

We’d love to have you come by and take a look at the building and all its stunning glory. Please give us a few days (a week or two?) to settle in and let us know you’re coming by so we can put the tea on for you.

Oh, and if you mail us things, our new address is:

Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Inc
209-163 West Hastings Street
Vancouver BC V6B 1H5

This entry was written by Emira Mears on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, is filed under Raised Eyebrow, and is tagged as . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.