The Alliance Center’s conference rooms are available free of charge for tenants with a desk. These rooms can be reserved in advance via The Alliance Center’s meeting room reservation system. In absence of a reservation, rooms are available on a first come, first served basis. To make a reservation, view your Google calendar—each conference room has an individual calendar that should be visible and shared with your calendar. If you do not have access to the calendars, please contact facilities@thealliancecenter.org to let us know so that we can share the calendars with you. You are also able to make a reservation at the digital displays directly outside of your desired conference room.

For virtual and hot desk tenants, your organization has a shared allotment of 10 hours each month for conference room usage. Beyond those hours, a fee will apply. You can view the conference room availability using the calendar reservation system, but if you’d like to book a room, please email facilities@thealliancecenter.org so we can track your usage.

Each tenant is provided a certain monetary allotment per year to use this space for free. Beyond that allotment, there is a discounted cost for use. If you’d like to reserve the first floor event space, or if you have any questions, please contact a member of our Events team at events@thealliancecenter.org or submit an event space inquiry here.

Yes, absolutely! Just get in touch with our Events team at events@thealliancecenter.org or submit an event space inquiry here.

Our sixth floor is only as big as an elevator lobby, so we have it outfitted with several different seating options and a semi-private meditation area. It’s usually pretty quiet up there, so it’s a great place to go for focused work. It is used weekly for yoga or occasionally for video recordings, in which case we will put up signage. If you’d like to ‘reserve’ the space for a video recording, please email facilities@thealliancecenter.org.

It’s very important that everyone makes sure to abide by the following guidelines:

• Make sure to reserve a room for all meetings, either through the calendar reservation system or through the reservation panels.
• Make sure the room you’re walking into is the one you reserved.
• Cancel reservations that you no longer need.
• End your meeting on time so that the next reservation can start their meeting on time.
• Tidy up the room before you leave (wipe down the boards, push the chairs in, turn off the tv).

If you have any questions or find that others may need a reminder about the room usage guidelines, please email facilities@thealliancecenter.org.

We have plenty of bike parking in the elevator lobbies, the basement storage area, and the parking lot. Please use what we have and don’t bring your bike into your suite unless all the parking options are filled. If your bike is wet or excessively dirty, kindly park it either outside or in the basement so that the cork floors in the upstairs areas are not damaged. Note: According to ADA regulations, you can’t lock your bike up to the ramp or walkway in front of the building.

There are a limited number of Monthly parking spaces available, and they are all currently reserved. If you anticipate driving daily and would like to be placed on the wait list for Monthly parking, please notify facilities@thealliancecenter.org. If you need to drive infrequently, there are a limited number of parking spaces in the lot adjacent to the building that are reserved for Guest parking. Guest parking is available on a first come basis at $5/hour or $15/day. To pay, please download the PayByPhone app and use our location number, 3563. If you have any questions, please ask an Alliance Center staff member.

We wish we could! Unfortunately, EcoPasses have to be managed by each employee’s organization, so we’re not able to provide them for the building. However, if your organization would like to learn more, you can find details here.

Yes, we do offer a tenant discount for the EV charging station! Please email facilities@thealliancecenter.org and we’d be happy to share the details with you.

For the most part, well-behaved dogs are welcome at The Alliance Center! We love our furry friends and they are great for people’s health and well-being. However, some suites may have different guidelines (such as one dog at a time, only on Fridays, or no dogs at all) so it’s worth checking with your suitemates first.  Regardless, we have a zero-tolerance policy for dogs that are aggressive to other dogs or to people and those pups may be banned from the building. Please do not leave dogs unattended and always clean up after them…we have extra cleaning supplies at the Information Desk on the first floor if you need them!

There are many more details in your organization’s legal agreement if you want to get technical, but long story short we know that accidents happen. Please let us know if something is broken or damaged so that we can fix it as quickly as possible. Depending on the extent of the damage, your organization may be responsible to repair or replace what was damaged.

Yes, we love the look that incorporating nature into the built environment provides!

Unfortunately, no.  We want to keep the building looking uniform with Teknion furniture and feel that we have planned for enough furniture for each tenant.  The amount of furniture in each suite is the best maximum amount that our architects designated for each space. However, if you do need additional bookshelves or cabinets, please let an Alliance staff member know, and we will do what we can to accommodate!

If you’d like to hang something on the drywall, please run it by an Alliance Center staff member first. Note: Due to our status as a historic building, you cannot hang or permanently affix anything on the brick or the historic timbers.

From 7am–5pm, Monday–Friday, the temperatures are set at 70–74 degrees in occupied suites. There are multiple zones serving conference rooms, private offices, and suites. Tenants have the ability to change the temperature within this range utilizing the thermostat in the vicinity. During after or weekend hours, the temperature remains off until a thermostat is manually changed. For after hours or weekend heating or cooling, or if you have any questions, please notify our staff at facilities@thealliancecenter.org.

Contact facilities@thealliancecenter.org for this information.Your suite number for mail may not match the floor your organization is on, so please be sure you know what your mailing address is before using it.

Suite huddles are an opportunity for a shared suite (a suite with several different organizations) to get together and discuss norms and expectations for their common area. It’s facilitated by Alliance Center staff and usually involves coffee and treats. It’s a great chance for each suite to set their own culture around things like noise levels, huddle room usage, and tidiness. If you’re interested in nominating your suite for a huddle, please email facilities@thealliancecenter.org.

In the interest of energy efficiency we try to limit the number of extra electronic items that are brought into the building. We have already provided coffee makers on each floor and a shared printing service, as well as many other community electronic items. If you need to bring in something like an extra monitor to help your work productivity, please do so! But otherwise, we ask that you use our shared services so that we can continue to be an energy efficient building. The exception is a space heater… those are never allowed due to the fire danger.

We have a first-aid cabinet located on the first floor, just outside of the kitchen. Feel free to help yourself to whatever you need!

Yes, we do have an AED. It’s located on the first floor, just outside of the kitchen.

If you’d like additional storage, we have storage cages in the basement of varying sizes and costs. We’ll simply add the storage cage to your monthly invoice. Please contact facilities@thealliancecenter.org in order to start that discussion. Additional storage space is also available in the common areas where the sinks and cabinets are. Please store things like personal cups/mugs or office supplies there.

Yes, we offer several options to get you set up with a desk phone, vanity number, etc. Please reach out to facilities@thealliancecenter.org for details!

There are stations with three receptacles located throughout the building for waste diversion/disposal. The blue bins are for mixed-stream recycling (paper, plastic, glass and metal). The green bins are for all food and most paper products as well as compostable plastics. The black bins are for landfill and should only be used for gum and weird plastics that are not recyclable (although be sure to check to see if they can be recycled in our hard-to-recycle station on the first floor). In the hard-to-recycle station, you can recycle many things that would otherwise go to the landfill, including dog and cat food bags, foil lined wrappers, empty beauty products, aerosol containers, etc. You can find a full list of acceptable items here.

We do offer printing services! The cost to print or copy is $0.07/page for black and white and $0.20/page for color. We bill your usage back to your organization. If you’d like to get set up, we will need to schedule about 15 minutes to download the print drivers and set up your organization’s specific codes. You can print or copy from a USB drive, but you’ll need your organization’s print code. Email us at facilities@thealliancecenter.org if you need your organization’s code or if you’d like to schedule time to download the print drivers.

Our janitorial team is not responsible for cleaning personal areas, just common areas. If you’d like to clean your desk, you’re welcome to use the cleaning supplies provided on each floor.

Each person is responsible for doing their dishes. Please do not leave items in the sink and make sure to do your dishes in a timely manner.

We do hope that this is a rare event but understand that dogs will have accidents in the building. Should one of those occasions occur with your pup we have supplies on hand to help out. Please come down to the first floor or email us at facilities@thealliancecenter.org to help out.