Ellen Associates

Our office is located at number 2293, 4th Main, 2nd Stage in Vijaynagar. We are pretty easy to find because we’re right near the Cafe Day. It’s a nice part of town with a lot of trees and people walking around. Ellen Associates is a small group of us who work on various design and planning tasks. We don’t have a big sign or anything, just a regular door that leads to our workspace. Inside, it’s mostly just desks, computers, and stacks of blueprints that never seem to get smaller no matter how much we work. We spend our days drafting and talking to contractors on the phone. Sometimes we walk over to the cafe when we need a break from looking at the screen for too long. The office atmosphere is pretty relaxed, though it gets a bit tense when we have a lot of projects due at once. We’ve been in this spot for a few years now. The neighborhood is good, and we like being close to other local businesses. We aren't trying to be some high-end firm; we just do our work and try to be honest about how long things will take. Sometimes a design takes longer than expected, or we find a problem that needs fixing. We just deal with it as it comes. It’s a lot of practical thinking and drawing. We like being in Vijaynagar because it feels like a real community.