MHP Toasts Rogers Office

Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl, principal and president of Mangan Holcomb Partners and Team SI.

There may be no bald eagles, but Mangan Holcomb Partners/Team SI has a sleek new perch in Rogers with a lovely view, a thirst-quenching past and a staff of three.

The glass and steel aerie is the former Core Brewing Co. tasting space on South Osage Springs Drive, and it asserts a renewed physical presence in the bustling northwest for the Little Rock marketing agency, President Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl said. MHP leases the space from Core Development LLC.

Vogelpohl compared the view from the deck of the Pinnacle Springs Building office space to the vista from MHP’s headquarters deck in Riverdale, where staffers bend elbows and watch bald eagles sail over the Arkansas River.

The space in Rogers, 1,250 SF designed by Core Architects of Rogers, overlooks the Pinnacle area. “We took possession of the space early in the year and we were going to have a series of parties recalling how the brewing company was there before, with associated refreshments,” Vogelpohl said in a phone interview. “Then COVID hit, and we didn’t get to do it.”

The three-employee northwest team — led by Emma Willis, the former director of the state’s 529 College Savings plan — is mostly still working from home, Vogelpohl said.

Willis, who was hired as a senior strategist for the firm in January to specialize in serving government clients, was a linchpin that brought the new office together, Vogelpohl said.

“She was already living in northwest Arkansas, so it was serendipitous in that we’ve been wanting to get back up there,” she said. “That’s where I started my career.”

A quarter-century ago, she said, Steve Holcomb hired her to launch a northwest Arkansas office, and she’s proud to “rehang our shingle.” At the time, she said, she was one of 15 employees of the agency, which now has 133 members comprising what she calls “the most talented and diverse team” in the firm’s 48 years in business.

“We’ve had a couple folks that we’ve recruited recently who also happened to work up in that part of the state,” Vogelpohl continued. “So from a recruitment standpoint, we see it as a real plus. The northwest talent base is amazing.”

The conviviality isn’t bad, either, she said. “The space really captures the spirit and kind of a personality of real collaboration and innovation,” Vogelpohl said. “And you know we love our drinks at the agency, and we liked the idea of being in a former tasting room with that feeling of openness and hospitality.”