Grand Opening: EventWorks' New Warehouse and Workshop Now Up and Running

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We love to re-purpose. It makes environmental and economic sense and it allows us to offer great rates to our clients. But our extensive collection of decor elements and furniture and our fabrication studio outgrew our old warehouse space.
Repurposing in Action!
Production Manager Carolyn Vasi and her great crew needed more room. Fortunately for us, a next door neighbor moved - and we jumped on the space! We added 7500 square feet of warehouse space, now happily spreading out over 30 000 square feet total.
Carolyn Vasi: "We got the keys on Labor Day weekend and went right to work to remodel the adjacent building for our purposes. Our amazing crew did it all in just over 6 weeks. They built and installed new ceilings above the office space to create more storage, built new floor-to-ceiling shelving and re-organized it all! We doubled the work shop space! Manuel and his crew can spread out. We have better, more accessible storage. It speeds up the work process."





We can also offer better amenities. Enter the doors to Carolyn's Queendom and get greeted in the well-lit (Thank you, Larry!) arrival lounge. Take a seat on the couch! (Thank you, Selena!)
Carolyn now works out of a new office where the force is definitely with her! The warehouse expansion features a new shower for our warehouse workers, a "man cave" for off-time with a fuss ball table and a blue couch group (Thank you, Ted!)with a wall-hanging TV set for video games.




We did it all on a shoestring budget.
Carolyn: "In the process we cleaned out the old storage and found items we had not used in 20 years. We held a garage sale and used the income for the construction. The couches for the lounge and the recreation room were donated by co-workers and the chic lamps had been used in an event and were a gift from the client."

We celebrated our warehouse opening a few days ago -  with our favorite food for a lunchtime fiesta! Edwin's and Mario's families' recipes: carne asada, pollo asado, the best black beans in L.A., marinated cucumber wedges, salsa, freshly made tortillas and great guacamole!

If you would like to get the black bean recipe, please revisit our Cinco de Mayo Post:
http://thenewsfromeventworks.blogspot.com/2014/05/fiesta-time-cinco-de-mayo-secret.html







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