200 Market Building

This truely is as good as an office building gets. I know from the outside it looks boxy and boring, but inside you’ve got constant eco-​friendly improvements (motion-​sensor lights in the stairwells are the latest) that led to a LEAD Platinum certification; and that truely is as good as it gets. Great management and stellar staff. I’m with Tom A. — this is an office building to LOVE.

I have absolutely nothing against the Black Box. It’s a black box, and an office, and conveniently located… at work.
I would give it a whooping 5 stars except I can’t bring myself to give an office building 5 stars. Sorry Black Box… you sure are big and pretty and square, though.

Is it wrong to love an office building? Well, I don’t really care about your judgments anyway.
I’ve worked at four different jobs in the ‘Black Box’ and let me tell you, my office building can kick your office building’s ass. For one thing, this place has the most phenomenal building staff I’ve ever seen. Everybody from the security folks to the guy who vaccums the driveway and mops the parking garage (you read that right) are super friendly and strangely driven to make tenants happy.
Despite being built in the 70’s and being cloaked entirely in black glass, 200 Market has won all kinds of awards for sustainable building design and practices (mostly because of extensive retrofitting done in the 90s). It has aggressive recycling programs and it’s own little co-​generation facility next to the parking garage Yeah, take THAT Wells Fargo Tower!
Now there’s a Flexcar hybrid in the garage but they used to have a little electric two-​seater that tenants could borrow to run errands! Can you match that, Umpqua Bank Building? I don’t think so.
So the lobby café has had its ups and downs, down on the plaza out front (where there are free lunchtime concerts every Wednesday in the Summer) we have Carafe and Murata, two of the best French and Japanese venues around these parts, respectively.
And even if your lame-​o office building could manage all that, which it can’t, 200 Market has two grass BOCCE COURTS on the second floor and a September building-​wide tournament that completely eliminates all productivity for an entire week.
So yeah, I do love my office building. I don’t care who knows it. I’d shout it from the roof but they won’t let me up there.