« Global worming | Main | Hoder's going home » Movement! Polycot's Maida Barbour at our new HQ Polycot was subleasing from Enspire Learning, where we had a terrific relationship and a very positive kind of problem: both companies were growing so fast, the three-story building on Guadalupe was about to explode! Fortunately my partners and I found another great space just a block away, at 503 W. 17th, behind Mars Restaurant. While Matt and I were presenting a proposal in San Diego yesterday, the other Polycots were moving into the new digs, where we plan to stay for a while. We're near Atomic City and the Dog and Duck Pub, so we should be okay. jon posted this at 8:00 PM |
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Congrats on the new digs! And congrats on being away for moving day! Hope to see the office some day.
Posted by: Dave Pentecost | June 10, 2005 10:03 PM
Wait a minute -- could that possibly be the historic site where BookPeople got its start, in its previous incarnation as Grok Books? Maybe not, just a guess. If so there should be a plaque by the door.
Hard to believe that the west-of-the-capitol neighborhood was once the low-rent incubator for other Austin institutions such as Toy Joy (whose fantasy brick facade is still incongruously visible on the front of a law office on Rio Grande) and one of the tiny hippie grocery stores that merged to form Whole Foods.
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | June 11, 2005 7:36 AM
Thanks, Dave! C'mon down!
Prentiss, you may be right about that being the old home of Grok... I didn't even think of it! If that's the case, then Mars Restaurant is the original Oat Willie's location, no?
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | June 11, 2005 9:04 AM