The Gazette Communications, Old Capital Town Center, Iowa City, Iowa

In a move to save on leased space, reduce duplicate equipment needs and improve the working environment of two separate entities, The Gazette Communications consolidated their Iowa City KCRG News Room and Gazette Communications Circulation offices in Coralville into one location in downtown Iowa City. The move gave them the opportunity to add amenities that were not justified in the two smaller offices such as a large conference and meeting rooms. The "noisy group", the News Room, was kept separated from the "quiet group", the Circulation group, by locating the common areas, including a break room, store rooms and a mail/copy center as a buffer between the two groups. Keeping the dry walled rooms to the interior of the space left the views and daylight to be shared by all occupants of the open plan workstations.