Consulting firm Emergent Method has outgrown its downtown office space at 453 Lafayette St. above Aztecas Restaurant and will be relocating down the block to a recently renovated building at the corner of Lafayette and Laurel streets.
Emergent Method will lease the second floor of the 9,000-square-foot building, which was overhauled by developer Prescott Bailey and completed earlier this year. Bailey, who spent some $2 million on the renovation, lives on the building’s third floor. He leases the first floor to Jeffrey Carbo Landscape Architects.
Emergent Method will undertake a minimal build-out of its new 3,000-square-foot office, which is basically move-in ready but has some open space the firm’s principals want to enclose. They will add two conference rooms—one large, one small—and a phone booth for private conversations.
“When you walk in there will be a half wall to separate the elevator from the rest of the office,” says Emergent Method President Nick Speyrer. “It will be a very open floor plan and open desks. We won’t even have cube walls. Just the conference rooms and a phone booth.”
Emergent Method has grown rapidly in the two years since it moved into the 2,100-square-foot office at 453 Lafayette St. It currently has some 16 full-time employees, another 15 or so interns, “and we think we’re going to be growing more,” Speyrer says.
The firm has signed a five-year lease with Bailey for the space. Speyer hopes to complete the move into the new space by August.
“They’re going to be a great fit,” Bailey says. “They’re a strong growing group. I’m excited to have them.”
—Stephanie Riegel
