Sneed said the idea was to keep the character of the warehouse while reusing it in a better and creative way. "It's an adaptive reuse," said Sneed, the Del Mar, Calif.-based architect who was in charge of the project. You're in the Camelback corridor, a part of Phoenix that is basking in the economic glow of the nearby Arcadia neighborhood.Īnd you're in an enormous building that was once a visual menace, a shuttered Sam's Club. "You feel like you could be at Google or Facebook."īut you're not. "The space is open airy and very employee focused," said Tom Siebert, a spokesman for Anne Sneed Architectural Interiors. It has a huge gym, bikes, a ping pong table in the lunch room, and its own nurse practitioner on premises. Indian School Rd., is unusual not only because it blossomed from the guts of a mothballed warehouse, but also because it is a visually stunning place with soaring ceilings, exposed duct work, work neighborhoods and express hallways. The 91,500 square-foot customer service center, at 2005 E. Leslie's Swimming Pool Supplies has converted an empty big-box eyesore into a light, bright state-of-art office space complete with splashy blue walls and the sounds of the sea. View Gallery: Leslie's pools turns empty big box into cool office space
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