A local company recently moved into Lumina Station while a Chicago-based firm plans to move out later this year.
Atlantic Computer Services, a local IT provider, relocated to 2,000 square feet of space at 1904 Eastwood Road, Suite 310-A.
“It’s a bigger space, and it’s laid out differently,” said Robbie Garner, president of ACS, on Tuesday. “It’s more user-friendly.”
The company’s former address was 1442 Military Cutoff Road. ACS’s relocation represents an opportunity to expand, Garner said, and will serve as headquarters for the company’s regional-based staff.
“We started in Wilmington over 15 years ago as a small computer repair company. Today, we are a full-service IT company serving a variety of technology needs for clients through southeastern North Carolina and beyond,” he said in an announcement about the firm’s relocation.
Garner said he worked with CoWorx founder Bryan Kristof on finding the new office. The space CoWorx has occupied at Lumina Station was divided to accommodate a separate office for ACS, Garner said.
Meanwhile, OpinionLab, 1900 Eastwood Road, Suite 11, plans to move out of its Lumina Commons offices in the coming months. The firm has leased more than 7,500 square feet of space at 301 Government Center Drive, said Steve Hall, a commercial broker with Maus, Warwick, Matthews & Co. who represented the landlord in the transaction.
Summer Ventura, a broker with ABG & Associates of Intracoastal Realty, represented OpinionLab, a company that specializes in collecting and processing consumer feedback.
Hall said there is still a little more than 15,000 square feet available in 301 Government Center Drive, a roughly 31,000-square-foot building formerly occupied by Baxano, a medical device firm that filed for bankruptcy last year after earlier moving the majority of its operations from Wilmington to Raleigh.
The remaining portion of the Government Center Drive building can be subdivided as low as 5,000 square feet, Hall said. Alpha Mortgage is the only other tenant currently, and the building is now pet friendly, an uncommon attribute for similar properties, he added.
Lumina Station, a 114,000-square-foot retail, dining and office center, was built in 1996.
