Aragon completes office build-out.Aragon Construction, working as construction manager, recently completed a 38,000 s/f build-out for Right Media in just five weeks, allowing the digital media company to move into their new offices on the fourth floor of Two Park Avenue on February 1. Starting work at the end of December, Aragon Construction, together with principal Larry Jones Larry Jones is also the real name of Atlanta Braves player Chipper Jones. Walter "Larry" Jones (born September 22, 1942 in Columbus, Ohio) is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the NBA and ABA, from 1964 to 1974. of Laurence G. Jones Architecture, began transforming what was previously office space for a catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. marketing design firm into an updated arena for a company that is entirely digital-based. "The old company needed tons of storage space for paper, photos and catalogs," explained Jones. "Right Media needed none of that, everything exists on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the for them; what they needed were places to have spontaneous spontaneous /spon·ta·ne·ous/ (spon-ta´ne-us) 1. voluntary; instinctive. 2. occurring without external influence. spontaneous having no apparent external cause. meetings in, so we created less formal office arrangements." Design elements included a lot of glass, sliding doors, IT rooms, meeting spaces and lounges. But it was the amazingly tight schedule that was the project's real challenge. "Constant communication among the team and the sourcing of long-lead materials during the pre-construction phase enabled us to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. the client on time," said Aragon president Alex Getelman. Michael Doetsch, managing director of Williamson, Picket, Gross, Inc., brokered the deal in late October for a seven-year lease on behalf of Right Media. "They are ecstatic ec·stat·ic adj. 1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy. 2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured. [French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from with their new offices and having been able to take possession so quickly," said Doetsch, noting that the young but fast-expanding company had outgrown its space at 212 5th Avenue. |
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