Ghidotti, the Little Rock communications and public relations firm, is nearly ready to move into its new home.
The agency closed in April on a building of its own downtown, the former Kirkpatrick Creative building at 801 W. Second St., at the corner of Second and State. Renovations are now underway, led by Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects of Little Rock and Jon Callahan Construction Inc. of North Little Rock.
“Dan Kirkpatrick of Kirkpatrick Creative bought the building in 2013,” Natalie Ghidotti said. “His son, Michael, now runs the agency. So we bought it, and they have a lease with us, so I’m super excited.”
She said the Kirkpatrick marketing firm will take up about 2,000 SF, and Ghidotti and her six employees will occupy about 4,000 SF, she said.
Data from the Pulaski County assessor’s office shows that the price for the nearly quarter-acre property was $760,000.
First Security Bank of Searcy helped the agency with a Small Business Administration loan, Ghidotti said.
Industrial Vibe
“Dan did a really cool job with the building, taking an old warehouse, basically, and turning it into an office,” Ghidotti said. When Kirkpatrick gave Arkansas Business a tour in 2018, the walls were glass, the floors concrete, the stairs steel and exposed cable.
Ghidotti likes the vibe, but maybe not every single touch.
“There are these cool, industrial kind of features that I’m going to keep, but I’m sort of warming it up,” she said. “I’m not going to lie: It was like a bro crash pad. There were two toilets in one of the bathrooms with no wall; they were just beside each other. I’m like, OK, we’ve got to get rid of that.”
The new HQ is a comedown from Ghidotti’s previous offices, but only literally. From 2016 until April, the agency had space on the 29th floor of the Regions Center at 400 W. Capitol Ave. “We had a good run there,” she said. “It was kind of hard to give up that beautiful view of the Arkansas River. But now I get to own my own building, and that’s a huge thing versus renting.”
Ghidotti expects to move in by early December.
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