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As owners of small but growing businesses, Andrew & Clare Rayner found that they had outgrown their home based office. Distractions from the kids, and the need to take on staff as the business grew, forced them to look to the office space market. And what a surprise that was!
With cost effective office space tending to be in less desirable locations, or coming as an empty shell, and with the more salubrious space coming with a minimum 5 year term, it seemed that the landlords were just 'doing it the way it had always been done' - none of them thinking about what the customer really needed, and in so doing they were alienating the very people they should have been attracting!
Andrew & Clare saw the opportunity to solve their need for space and offer something new to other St Albans based businesses. So, with the help of a family investor, they purchased The Old Pump House (formerly Photoprint House) in August 2007 and set to the task of transforming a run-down reprographics studio into a contemporary, modern office space with all the facilities a new business needs.
The Old Pump House was officially opened on 7th September 2007 by the then Mayor of St Albans, Kate Morris, a local historian who herself has a special interest in the properties on Stonecross. Guest speaker, business networking guru Andy Lopata, treated guests at the opening to an inspiring keynote talk on the value of networking for businesses, one of the value-adds of shared office space as clients will testify!
Today Albans Office Space is still owned by Andrew & Clare but is managed by Hafsah Akbar. Hafsah and the team are ready and waiting to support the next customer who wants to meet at, work in or grow their business from our St Albans location!