A new mega multi-use office park is under development at Durango Drive and the 215 Beltway. Dubbed the “UnCommons”, and rightly so, since it will be anything but a common office park. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the development will feature 500,000 square feet of office space, nearly 100,000 square feet of restaurant / retail space, 875 apartments and a designated green space, to kick back on.
“I think that this will be one of the finest representation of retail off the Las Vegas strip,” Vice President of Development at Matter Real Estate Group Tom van Betten told FOX5 Vegas. “By creating a workplace that integrates all these retail services, directly supporting the office tenants is something that is in Las Vegas, but not at this scale.”
Called UnCommons, its developers said it will be exactly that. A space that is one of its kind, think of Town Square Mall or The District at Green Valley. Developers said this project will have it all.
“Imagine this type of day: an employee comes in, has a yoga or spin class, then maybe a craft coffee, goes to the office, has a great brainstorm session, a business lunch at the artisan food hall, back to the office then has a social gathering, before walking home to your luxury apartment,” van Betten said told FOX5 Vegas.
The campus style concept has proven a much more consumer friendly design philosophy, as it makes it convenient for professionals and for the stores that service them. Similar projects have been trending around other major city centers with successful occupancy rates, and now is becoming a template for developers.
The primary developer and owner of Matter Real Estate Group, Jim Stuart who is behind “UnCommons’ is well known in Vegas for other major developments such as Las Ramblas Hotel and Town Square. He isn’t one to gamble, after Town Square succumb to the 2012 recession, so this is an exciting new project for him, and based on the business model, likely a winning hand.