Two floors built to win cases.
Interior design for Halsted Pryor LLP's 62,400 sq ft move to Fulton Market, from programming to move-in on May 8, 2028.
Prepared for
Halsted Pryor LLP
Date
April 5, 2027
Design fee
$446,605
Four floors into two, and nobody loses ground
140 lawyers move from four floors in the Loop to floors 31 and 32 of the new Fulton Market tower. Same headcount, half the stacking, open by May 8, 2028.
Your current lease ends June 30, 2028, so the date is fixed. Your RFP asked for a private office for every partner and fewer square feet overall. We think both are possible if trial prep stops living in borrowed conference rooms.
The real stake is recruiting. Associates now choose firms partly on the floor they will work on. If any of this is wrong, tell us before you read on.
Twelve people, and every move-in on the date
Fenwick Adair Design, founded 2016 in West Town. Tessa Fenwick and Julian Adair lead every project themselves. Law and advisory firms are most of what we do.
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Workplace delivered
Since 2016, across Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit.
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Law firm floors
Litigation, arbitration and appellate practices, from 40 to 310 lawyers.
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On-date move-ins
Out of 31. We plan backwards from your lease expiry and from the slowest supplier, not from the design calendar. That habit is the whole record.
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Less paper storage
Average file room reduction after our records audits.
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People, two principals
Corliss Wade LLP, River North
118 lawyers moved from three floors to two. Every partner kept a private office. Rent down $1.14M a year from the first month.
Brannock Vail Partners, West Loop
A trial floor with six lockable war rooms, each wired for document review on day one. Booked 81 percent of working days in year one.
Merrow Capital, Fulton Market
A client floor on level 22 of a new tower. Conference suite, café and boardroom in one sequence. Installed in nine working days.
Kestner Haskell LLP, Milwaukee
File rooms cut by 64 percent after a records audit. The space went to a library and twelve quiet rooms.
The schedule is set by the slowest chair
Workstations take 12 to 16 weeks to make. Custom millwork takes 10. So we lock furniture before drawings are finished, and every phase below is sized to protect that order date.
Program, four weeks
Interviews with every practice group, a two-week badge and sensor study on your current floors, and a records audit. Output: a signed space program.
Concept, four weeks
Two test fits across floors 31 and 32. Your partners walk both in VR before anyone picks one.
Design development, six weeks
Finishes, lighting, acoustics and millwork resolved. Workstation and seating specified now, not later.
Construction documents, seven weeks
Full drawing set for permit and bid, coordinated with your MEP engineer and the base building team.
Procure, release by December 7
FF&E priced, approved and released on one date, tracked in a live dashboard your facilities team can see.
Install and move, three weeks
Furniture install, punch list, art and styling. Lawyers arrive Monday, May 8, 2028.
Managing partners say it better than we do
One fee for the design. Your furniture budget stays yours.
In US dollars. The design fee is fixed at $7.16 per sq ft across 62,400 sq ft, built from our rates: principal $285 an hour, senior designer $195, designer $150. FF&E goods are a separate budget, paid by you to vendors at net trade price.
Design fee
Fixed for the scope in this proposal, invoiced monthly against progress.
Interior design, programming to move-in
Interior design, programming to move-in
Program and workplace study
Interviews, sensor study, records audit.
Concept and two test fits
Includes three VR review sessions.
Design development
Construction documents
Permit and bid set, both floors.
Permit and bid support
Construction administration
Weekly site visits over 19 weeks.
Project management
About 9 percent of fee.
FF&E procurement and install
Optional. On a goods budget of $3.19M, plus a 10 percent contingency held by you.
Procurement services
Procurement services
Procurement management
7.5 percent of goods value.
Install supervision and punch list
Art placement and styling
Two days, both floors.
December 7 is the date that matters
Miss the FF&E order release and lawyers arrive to empty floors. Everything before it is planned to land that date. Assumes consolidated partner feedback within five working days. Move-in Monday, May 8, 2028.
Program and workplace study
Concept, two test fits in VR
Design development
Construction documents
City of Chicago permit review
Typically 6 to 8 weeks. Not in our control.
FF&E specification, pricing and approval
Budget signed off by your COO before release.
FF&E order release
Manufacturing lead times
Workstations 12 to 16 weeks, upholstery 14, millwork 10. This bar sets the date.
Fit-out by your general contractor
Install, punch list and styling
The fine print, said plainly
What decides whether the fee and the May 8 date hold.
What is the FF&E budget, and who controls it?
Our estimate for furniture, fixtures and equipment is $3.05M to $3.32M for both floors, plus a 10 percent contingency that you hold. You buy at net trade price and pay vendors directly. Nothing is ordered without your COO's written approval.
What happens if we change an order after release?
Most manufacturers take a 50 percent deposit and start production within two weeks. Once production starts, the deposit is usually lost. We will tell you the cost of a change before you make it, every time.
What does the design fee not include?
MEP and structural engineering, AV and IT design, the general contractor, City of Chicago permit fees, moving company and base building charges. We brief and coordinate each consultant, and review their fees before you sign.
How many revisions are included?
Two rounds per phase. A change to the program after concept sign-off is a change order, priced in writing before we start it.
Site access and install constraints
We assume freight elevator access on nights and weekends for install, union labor as the building requires, and storage for 10 working days in a bonded warehouse within 15 miles.
Payment and photography
Invoiced monthly, net 30. We keep the right to photograph the finished floors, with no client names or documents in shot, and share images with you first.
Sign by April 30 and we start May 4
This proposal holds until Friday, April 30, 2027. Sign below and we book the first practice group interviews for the week of May 4. Julian Adair and Tessa Fenwick can walk floor 31 with you on Thursday, April 22, if you would rather talk first.
Prepared by
Tessa Fenwick Principal, Fenwick Adair Design
1847 West Hubbard Street, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60622 tessa@fenwickadair.com
For approval by
Renata Kowalczyk Chief Operating Officer, Halsted Pryor LLP
rkowalczyk@halstedpryor.com
Appoint Fenwick Adair Design
By signing, you appoint Fenwick Adair Design for interior design of floors 31 and 32 at a fixed fee of $446,605, starting Tuesday, May 4, 2027, for move-in on Monday, May 8, 2028. FF&E procurement services are confirmed separately if you select them.