2 | Monday, February 23, 2015 | Northern Nevada Business Weekly
Furniture dealer finds right fit in Reno
Henriksen/
Butler’s
new Reno
furniture
showroom
is located in
refurbished
space in
First Street
building
built in
1936.
By Anne Knowles
aknowles@nnbw.biz
Henriksen/Butler’s new showroom on First
Street in the heart of downtown Reno follows
company tradition.
“Part of our mission is to reuse and repurpose,” said Ian Anderson, president of H/B
Nevada, who will be relocating from Las Vegas to Reno in April to manage the commercial furniture dealer’s new location.
“In Salt Lake City we’re in a 130-year-old
synagogue. In Las Vegas we’re in a 60-yearold bread factory and in Boise we’re in the
American Legion. It’s part of our brand.”
Recycling isn’t as simple as it sounds,
though.
“The partners and I joke a lot about how
it would be easier to and less expensive to go
into a brand new space,” said Anderson.
That’s how Henriksen/Butler started in
northern Nevada, in temporary digs in the
U.S. Bank Building at Virginia and Liberty streets, while spending six months and
$340,000 to remodel and outfit its new
location in the nearly 80-year-old building on
First Street.
Pinecrest Construction & Development
Co. was the general contractor on the project
COURTESY
HENRIKSEN/
BUTLER
designed by Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects.
The second-story, 1,900-square-foot Reno
outlet is the 35-year-old company’s fifth
and latest showroom. A 2,400 square-foot
warehouse is located near the Reno-Tahoe
International Airport.
“We don’t want to inventory a lot because
everything is made to order,” said Anderson.
“A chair can be specified a hundred different
ways.”
Henriksen/Butler is one of 48 certified
dealers for Herman Miller, the well-known
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maker of modern office furniture. The
company represents more than 100 manufacturers, including Herman Miller Health
Care, Geiger, Maharam, DIRTT, Spacesaver,
Nemschoff, and InterfaceFlor.
Its customers include Zappos, Fidelity
Investments and The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, and IGT, the State of
Nevada and Banner Churchill Community
Hospital in Fallon locally.
The Reno showroom and warehouse will
employ five people, including Anderson.
Henriksen/Butler’s staff is excited about
being close to Reno’s start-up row, just
around the corner on Arlington Street.
The dealer focuses on commercial businesses, and provides interior design and
project management services, but Anderson
said the showroom won’t turn away the occasional individual buyer looking to furnish a
home office.
“We had someone off the street the other
day come in and say ‘How are you going to do
any business up here on the second floor?’”
said Anderson.
Reno lands
cyber security
company
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One business clearly looking to hire
tech-savvy young people is BlackRidge
Technology, a cyber-security company
from Santa Clara, which will relocate
its headquarters and operations to
Reno.
The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada and Northern
Nevada Development Authority jointly
assisted BlackRidge in the relocation
and its application for state incentives.
The company’s decision to move
its business to northern Nevada is
emblematic of the “smaller company”
success stories touted by EDAWN and
NNDA at the recent Directions 2015
program.
The Nevada business-friendly tax
structure and the availability of incentives made it an easy business decision
to expand our presence in the state and
relocate our headquarters to Reno,”
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The technology is designed to cloak
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space in the South Meadows area of
Reno where construction on the new
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