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For employees looking to kick their feet up for a few minutes or grab a cup of coffee, there's a secondary break area downstairs, something Enclave never would've had room for in their old space, says Meland. "We used to be in the Parkside Building across from Island Park," he says, adding that, in a little more than five years, Enclave has grown from just himself and Morris to an on-site team of nearly 20. "And we initially had just the first floor there and then we moved to the second floor and then we moved (out). "We never thought we'd outgrow that building, and then we never thought we'd fill this office. But it only took about six months and we were full here."
Even the nicest offices have their warts—a messy server room, an unkempt storage closet, an archaic filing cabinet—but not Enclave. "We sandblasted all the brick and timbers in this whole area," Meland says. "And then we built this mezzanine area. These timbers came out of Moorhead High School, and we repurposed them. And because of the mezzanine height, we couldn't put a 12inch floor system in, so we just did thick, short beams. So basically this is a six-inch floor, and then the floor above it is also the finished ceiling below it. "This is where all of our data and storage racks are, as well as our main electrical panels. So this is kind of the mechanical room with everything piped into it. We didn't want to see and were pretty anal about where the pipes were and how we were going to run things." If you can't see any of the stuff he was talking about, well, that's kind of the point.
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