Gunlocke's Silea - Best of Neocon 2009 Silver Award

Gunlocke introduced its newest casegoods line Silea at Neocon 2009.

Designed by Mitch Bakker, principal of IDa Design, Silea was "developed to provide designers with the freedom to create innovative, appealing private office solutions, it features unique functionality and extensive flexibility of scale."

Silea won the Silver Best of Neocon 2009 for the Casegoods: Desks and Credenza Category

For a preview of Silea, click (HERE).

For more information about Silea, Gunlocke, or office furniture in general, please feel free to contact Sam Clar Office Furniture or the Commercial Services Group.

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Lots of Movement in Bay Area Commercial Real Estate

Last week I noted that the dominoes were starting to fall in the local commercial real estate market. The fun has definitely begun. Big story this week:

250 Montgomery Street in San Francisco (corner of Pine), a 16 story / 116ksqft building just traded hands at a 57% decline (from $400 / sqft to $172 / sqft). The owner, Lincoln Properties, went into default and sold the note on the building to an undisclosed buyer. The story in the San Francisco Business Times goes onto say that this transaction sets a new benchmark in valuations of San Francisco Commercial Real Estate (LINK).

As noted last week, the downstream effect of these transactions will ultimately allow rents to adjust to the new reality (down), and thus begin to fill up the mostly vacant buildings.

Why is this relevant to Sam Clar Office Furniture, the Commercial Services Group, or any other Bay Area Facilities professional? Because - the more transactions (companies moving or relocating), the more projects and opportunities for our services. Rents adjusting downward allows the building owners to increase occupancy - (e.g. more relocations). Again, this is a "painful" but necessary adjustment process.

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Allsteel Sponsors a Local Ergonomics Seminar

The Staff at Sam Clar Office Furniture, and The Commercial Services Group would like to invite you to The Basic Changing Trends of Demographics and Body Sizes, an ergonomics seminar given by Scott Openshaw, M.S., CPE., and hosted by Allsteel. The course will cover recent trends showing the workplace growing heavier and aging, and the implications of these changes.

The course falls under subject code 1.3 (Theory & Creativity, Human Factors/Ergonomics), Designation: General Knowledge.

This seminar is approved as .1 CEU under the same course number.

Two dates are available, July 14th from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM and July 16th from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM. The seminar will take place at the San Francisco Allsteel Resource Center. Seating is limited, for more information and to RSVP, please follow the link in the title above (or click HERE).

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Some Help in Calculating LEED Credits

In the past 18 months, nearly 100% of our projects have started out with the client or specifier asking us about the "green" factor of our products. With the desire for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification becoming more and more commonplace, being able to quickly and accurately provide answers has become a critical determinant to winning projects.

Within our organization(s), (Sam Clar Office Furniture and The Commercial Services Group), we are fortunate enough to have Rachel Leaverton, a LEED Accredited Professional (AP), on-staff to assist us in navigating the path towards a LEED certified project. In addition to Rachel, we have found that the Gunlocke Company has a great new on-line resource that can also help.

Check out Gunlocke's Green Calculator to quickly find out how Gunlocke's products can help earn LEED credits towards certification.

See How Sustainable Gunlocke's Converge Product Line is with the new Green Calculator

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