Forks & Corks Event Near South Creek Overland Park

If you’re interested in fine dining and fighting hunger, check out Harvester’s 16th annual Forks and Corks.  This charitable event offers guests the opportunity to sample delicious food and wine from some of Kansas City’s best restaurants and beverage purveyors.  Restaurants such as 801 Chophouse, Andre’s Confiserie Suisse, and Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue will all be in one place on one night serving a variety of sweet and savory treats, and purveyors such as Les Bourgeois will be providing wine.

Proceeds from this event go to Harvesters, an organization that works in conjunction with other agencies to collect and distribute food and household products, as well as to raise awareness about hunger and try to find long term solutions to hunger problems.

Last year, Forks & Corks had over 2,700 attendees.  The event raised almost $211,000 for Harvesters, which is enough to provide over one million meals for the hungry! So come make this year even more of a success!

Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Ballroom at the Kansas City Convention Center. 16th & Wyandotte Kansas City, MO 64105
Price: $55.00 for an event ticket, but you can pay more for VIP privileges!
The money from one ticket to Forks & Corks provides meals for 450 hungry people!  Purchase tickets online or call 816-929-3019.

If you are interested in finding out more about business office rental in Overland Park, a community that supports charitable events like this one, give one of our commercial real estate brokers in Overland Park a call: 913-685-4100.

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Different Office Layouts for Your Office Rental Space in Kansas City

Trying to figure out how best to configure your office rental space?  Here are a few different office layouts to give you some ideas as you consider how to best use your space:

  1. Traditional.  This is the typical office layout involving doors, walls, and cubicles.  Partitions can be set up in the open area for support staff and other lower level employees, while top level company officers usually occupy corner offices with windows, more privacy, and often more square footage.
  2. Cubicle.  This is often used in companies with large numbers of middle-management level workers.  Open office space is divided by partitions into rows of spaces separated by isles for employees to move through and be able to communicate with one another.  Each cubicle typically has a desk with a computer and a phone and is usually occupied by one employee, but could house two or three.
  3. Open.  This plan is often found in creative environments (i.e. design companies).  The benefit of this layout is increased communication among staff members.  Often staff members do not have their own individual desk, computer, or phone in this plan, and conference areas are generally set up on the outer walls of the open office space.
  4. “Hot Desk.”  This type of layout is a late 20th century phenomenon.  With this arrangement, two or more employees share the same space at different times of day or on different days of the week, maximizing the amount of people who can use an office space.

There are many different ways to layout an office to best suit your company’s needs, and South Creek Overland Park is willing to work with you to arrange your space to best meet those needs, so give one of our commercial real estate brokers in Overland Park a call and tell us what you are looking for: 913-685-4100!

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Snake Saturday Parade & Festival Near South Creek Overland Park

This March, you can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with several different parades and events all over Kansas City!  The Snake Saturday Parade & Festival in North Kansas City is one of the first events to kick off the week of celebrations.  This particular celebratory day is also a fundraiser, and its goal is to award over $50,000 in prize monies to 50–100 local charities.

The theme of the 2012 parade is “NKC: A Century Of Home Town Pride.”  The parade will start at 11:00 a.m. on March 17, 2012, regardless of weather conditions.  If you are interested in being a part of this spectacular Irish celebration and fundraiser, you can either volunteer, enter the Parade, become a sponsor, or just go enjoy the event!

The parade route:
Starts at 14th & Swift
Travels north on Swift to Armour Road
Turns east on Armour Road to Howell Street
Turns south and ends after crossing 18th Street

The parade awards ceremony is at 3 p.m. in the North Kansas City Community Center.  The festival aspect of the event will take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., and features activities for people of all ages, carnival rides, food, a car show featuring over 50 race cars, a children’s square with free pony rides, petting zoo, live entertainment and much more!

If you want to learn more about community events you can take advantage of when you choose commercial office rental in Overland Park with Southcreek, give one of our commercial real estate brokers in Overland Park a call 913-685-4100!

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Hospitals Near South Creek Overland Park

Are you curious to learn a bit more about the amenities offered by the community surrounding your potential office rental space in Overland Park?  Though not as pleasant to consider as the restaurants and the golf clubs in the area, it might give you some peace of mind to know that renting through South Creek will put you near several hospitals in Overland Park.  Here are a few of the hospitals in the surrounding area:

1.    St. Luke’s Hospital South – 12330 Metcalf Ave. Overland Park, KS.
2.    Mid America Heart Institute – 12300 Metcalf Ave. Overland Park, KS.
3.    Menorah Medical Center – 5721 West 119th Street Overland Park, KS.
4.    Leawood Family Care – 11301 Ash Street Leawood, KS.
5.    Children’s Mercy South – 5808 W 110th Overland Park, KS.
6.    Heartland Spine & Specialty Hospital – 10720 Nall Avenue Overland Park, KS.
7.    Olathe Medical Center – 10500 Quivira Road Overland Park, KS.

To see a more detailed map of the hospitals and medical centers in the Overland Park area, visit our website. Hospitals are just one of the many amenities and opportunities that office rental through Southcreek Office Park gives you access to with its great location in Overland Park.  Our website offers a more complete list of services in the area that make it a good place to both work and live.  Please feel free to call and talk to one of our commercial real estate brokers in Overland Park about how we can best meet your office leasing needs 913-685-4100.

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