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SPEAKING THE CORPORATE LANGUAGE
LOCKWOOD 2 CREATIONS BRINGS A UNIQUE SET OF SKILLS AND PASSION TO OFFICE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
BY HALEY BRADFORD BATEMAN
Lisa and Steve Lockwood speak the corporate language and they speak it well. Just like the intricacies of conjugation and the nuances of meaning have to be learned as one studies a new language, communication in the corporate world has its own complexities, and the Lockwoods of Lockwood 2 Creations understand this.
While Lisa is a native of Springdale, the Lockwoods moved to Northwest Arkansas together nine years ago from Minneapolis, Minn. They each have an extensive background in retail, Lisa with Target and Steve with Meijer, as well as experience with project management of corporate campuses. In fact, before the Lockwoods moved to Northwest Arkansas, they primarily worked on complex, multi-million-square-foot projects that often took two to three years to complete.
When they arrived in the area, they wanted to continue their business, but were not sure if they could sustain it here in Arkansas. They loved the region and planned to establish a home here, but thought that they would have to fly out to do business in other major metropolitan regions. “We were pleasantly surprised,” Lisa says. Today, we do approximately 85-90% of our business right here in Northwest Arkansas. There’s no place we’d rather be. The Lockwoods are experts in project management, interior design and owner representation. They are the boots on the ground who help some of the largest companies in the world plan and develop local office space.
The Lockwood’s have proven time and again that their business, Lockwood 2 Creations, has what it takes to not only act as the corporation’s local representation throughout the process, but to also save companies time and money by managing the construction, avoiding costly change orders and making good decisions quickly to keep the project moving from design to move-in. Many of these companies have their own large corporate campuses out of state where they may have thousands of employees. But here in Northwest Arkansas, many of them have built a Walmart team that works in a local office that is small yet vitally important to the overall success and growth of the company. In fact, for many of these consumer packaged goods companies, as much as one third of their annual revenue is generated by the work their local team does.
The Lockwoods understand how to deliver workspace that supports these teams to do their best business.
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