It’s been quite a busy week here at GO FESTIVE! At the beginning of the month we took occupancy of our brand new office space at 2424 Studios, located at 2424 E. York St. in Philadelphia. The building itself was originally a warehouse, right in the heart of one of the oldest industrial neighborhoods in the nation, Fishtown. The development group of 2424 has done a great job renovating this behemoth building into large, airy studio and office spaces. The building also includes “The Skybox” a 6,500 square foot event space available to rent for gallery openings, parties….even movie nights like the ones we at GO FESTIVE! specialize in!
Moving day was Monday, August 3. Thankfully our former office space is very near to 2424, so we accomplished the move all by ourselves. Owner Natalie, assistant Christine, and photobooth attendant-turned-helping hand Katelyn gathered to pack up the old office. Natalie’s mother Sue joined us to help move boxes, computers, and office equipment over to 2424. Once there, we had a furniture assembly party – you can’t take over a beautiful brand new office and not get some swanky new furniture for it!
Once all the furniture was together and most of the unpacking done for the day, we realized that our nice new office had gotten rather messy! Parts of 2424 are still under construction, so we had tracked in quite a bit of dust. It was almost 7 o’clock, and we really wanted to enjoy a post-move celebratory meal. But we didn’t want to leave the office looking dusty. Thankfully, there was an easy solution! The newest member of the GO FESTIVE! team is a little guy we call Zoomba the Roomba – one of those vacuuming robots! We all had a good laugh when we saw Zoomba scurrying around the room cleaning up after us for the first time.
Free from the toil of clean-up, we enjoyed a drink and an excellent meal at The Memphis Taproom, a gastropub located only a few blocks from 2424. Excellent wings and enormous burgers, in case anyone’s looking for a good place for a meal!
For the rest of the week, we settled into our new home. There’s still some decorating to be done in the new office, but our operations are up and running. And a good thing too: this week alone we booked over a dozen movie events! September’s calendar is filling up quickly with back-to-school parties, weddings, end-of-summer bashes and other events, so if you’re thinking of booking for September, you’d best call soon!
Check out the pictures of our great new office space below. We look forward to continuing our great service to our customers from our new location. Stop by and see us sometime, at 2424 or online at our new website: www.gofestive.com!
Pictures from Moving Day:
Zoomba the Roomba explores his new home!!
Everything's finally moved in - notice how dark it is outside? We worked all day!
