Hannon Hill Moves! Come Check Out Our New Place
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 4:45pm -- Sam Beresford
As our country's been swept up with the spirit of change in recent months, Hannon Hill too has experienced a great forward progression. Or rather, a great upward progression. At the beginning of this month, while remaining firmly entrenched in our building, One Atlanta Plaza, we proudly moved from the 24th floor to the 33rd & 34th floors -- the penthouse, as it's affectionately known. It's a tremendous new space and an upgrade in all respects, and now that we're all moved in (and almost all settled), we thought we'd show you around.
So the whole "33rd & 34th floors" thing is a tad misleading; while our entrance and a conference room or two are on the 33rd floor, our primary space is on the 34th floor -- the whole 34th floor. After you enter through our lobby on the 33rd floor....
....feel free to take either our private elevator or the grand staircase to the 34th:
You'll immediately be greeted by two of our primary conference rooms; the first, Peachtree, is ground zero for Free Lunch Fridays and any all-hands (company-wide) meetings, and the second, Ponce de Leon, is primarily used for management meetings and, um, Guitar Hero sessions.
After checking out the conference rooms (and there are plenty more where they come from), you can head down a hallway like the one below to see where we spend most of our time. We (the marketing department) can be found here, along with some management folks and most of the Pardot team.
The new layout is still taking some getting used to, but we're all slowly but surely remembering where everybody sits. However, going from one 'Cubeland' in our old digs to two or three (depending on how you define them - maybe two 'Cubelands' and a 'Cubevillage'?) in our new spot doesn't make it very easy. Nonetheless, here's one where most of the engineering crew engineers:
When we were planning this move, we had to keep in mind two very important, mission critical spaces -- our server room:
and our ping-pong room:
As you can see, our servers have lots more room to breathe, and our ping-pong table now has enough space to invite its buddy the pinball machine over to hang out. And we still have a well-stocked breakroom, but now when it's chow time, we've got a few places to eat, hang out, and enjoy the view. Here's one of them:
And in an added bonus, we've got great accomodations for our bicycle commuters and lunch break gym-goers:
Heck yeah! A private shower, which goes nicely with our private bathrooms, accessible only through our office. And once we were all set up and back in the groove, our first order of business was to get the pennants of all our higher education clients back up on the wall:
For those of you who attended last year's Cascade Server User's Conference, you know that our annual open house took place in our office and (in our opinion, at least) was a great time. With this awesome new space, we'd be crazy not to have our open house here -- so now that you've had a sneak peek, start looking forward to Hannon Hill's open house at the 2009 Cascade Server User's Conference!
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