Commercial spaces

We’re not taking commercial spaces this season. We are talking with a small number of Portland spaces about next year, and if a lobby or a dining room is your problem to solve, now is a reasonable time to start.

A lobby is not three apartment trees standing next to each other. It’s a twenty-foot ceiling, a revolving door, a stone floor that shows every mark, a security desk that has to keep working, and everybody in the building walking past the same corner twice a day. It’s a different scale, a different schedule, and a conversation before it’s anything else. That’s why there’s no price on this page.

What we’d want to know: what the space is, roughly how big, and whether anyone has done it before. That’s it. Everything else is easier said out loud, and there’s no hurry — decisions for next December get made in the spring.