![]() In 1991 he co-founded Libery Partners, Inc., a full-service tenant representation firm. His clients include the Arco Pension Fund, Wells Fargo Realty, Sun Savings, and the Resolution Trust Corporation, who have helped shape the Denver we know and love today. In 1987, Grant began as a landlord representative at Fuller & Company, where he developed a unique marketing strategy to negotiate office leases for a portfolio of over a million square feet of commercial office space in the Denver area alone. He is the founder of the Shift Foundation and lives in Denver with his son Max. Barnhill attended New York University and the University of Colorado at Denver, and has been an active donor to numerous local non-profits. ![]() Since 1993 Grant has been at the forefront of Denver’s transforming scene and has built his career upon its buildings and neighborhoods in a way that has positively impacted the local communities. As someone who has been managing, developing and investing in the local Real Estate scene for over 30 years, Grant is a veteran of successful transactions and operations including hundreds of millions of dollars worth of apartment, industrial, and office projects. They want a different environment.Grant Barnhill believes in Denver’s revitalization. “This isn’t a community where there are pingpong tables,” Barnhill said. What sets Shift apart from other co-working providers in Denver, he said, is its focus on mid-career professionals. “People want to be able to be nimble and be flexible,” Barnhill said. The offices at the Bannock location can accommodate one to 10 people. Pricing at Shift starts at $279 a month for co-working space, $425 a month for a dedicated desk and $625 a month for a private office. Right now, less than 1 percent of Denver’s office stock is shared workspace product, he said.įor companies, shared work space offers access to the types of amenities and environment that workers want, without the need to make a long-term lease commitment, he said. Design plays such a big role in workplace happiness.” “You go to places like the U.K., in London especially, and 20 percent of all the office space in London is shared office, office business centers. “I think it is the future,” Barnhill said. Barnhill said they are in negotiations with a New York boutique hotel developer to oversee the larger project, of which Shift would be a tenant. Barnhill said they filled 55 semi-trucks with old electronics to recycle or get rid of.Īnd while Denver’s co-working landscape has changed in the nearly three years it took to bring the Bannock project to market, particularly with the entrance of WeWork earlier this year, Barnhill believes there’s still plenty of room for growth.Ī third Shift location could be part of a larger redevelopment of the old Cathedral High School in Uptown. Before Barnhill renovated the building they helped to clean out the 50 years worth of electronics that the former company had been selling and collecting over the years. Barnhill has transformed the Fistell’s Electronic building in the Golden Triangle into Denver’s newest co-working and collaborative space. Richardson/The Denver PostGrant Barnhill, founder of Shift Workspaces, is pictured in front of pictures of the old Fistell’s Electronic building before he completely renovated the building Octoin Denver, Colorado. Inside, custom wallpaper covers the walls of private phone booths and small meeting rooms - one room was inspired by old electronics schematics found when Shift was cleaning out the building, while another is covered in tiny reproductions of Andy Warhol selfies. “People want a different work experience.”įor its Bannock campus, Shift transformed the old Fistell’s Electronics building into a sophisticated, hospitality-inspired office environment, the building’s original timber ceilings and brick walls mixed seamlessly with glassed-in offices and modern art.Ī 2,000-square-foot outdoor deck with views of the Front Range crowns the building’s third floor, which was added as part of the renovations. “Traditional office space in a lot of ways is really dead,” Barnhill said during a tour late last week. already about 50 percent leased and expected to be full by the end of the year, Shift founder and CEO Grant Barnhill said. The Denver-based shared workspace provider unveiled the 22,000-square-foot building last week, its 87 private offices at 1001 Bannock St. ![]() ![]() Shift Workspaces has doubled down on what it believes is the future of office, opening its second shared office and co-working campus in central Denver. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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