Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Jason Preston
It’s a lot easier to live and work green when someone else is doing all the work for you.
The Parnassus Group moved into thinkspace a little over a month ago, and it’s been great for us so far. I commute from Fremont, which is fun, but more importantly it gives you an idea of whether [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Peter Chee
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Tenant improvements can require a new company moving into an existing building to create a lot of demolition debris. In order to build out our Thinkspace executive office suites, 5.79 tons or 11,580 pounds of demolition debris was removed. The number of tons could have been much greater, but one of our goals was to [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Peter Chee
I have five office chairs and a desk which a previous tenant had left behind when they moved out. I knew that these items need to be given away so I decided I would give “freecycle” a try and see how it compares to Craigslist. I’ve used Craigslist a lot in the past, as I tend to [...]
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