The Journal Record
CPA firm breaks ground on new building
BY KELLEY CHAMBERS
Friday, June 8, 2007 $1.00 • Vol. 112, No. 112 • Two Sections
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City accounting firm will break ground today on a new building in the same office park where it currently is based.
Nancy Hyde, president and founder of Hyde & Co., a certified public accounting firm, began the business in 2002 with four employees.
Since then the firm has grown to a staff of 16 and has outgrown its current space at 7100 N. Classen Blvd.
“We’ve experienced quite a bit growth in a short period of time,” Hyde said. “I think what’s contributed to the growth we’ve had in the firm is just the fact that we’ve expanded our services as clients have needed something new.”
The new building will have about 7,000 square feet of office space. The company has been operating in about 4,300 square feet in a 20-year-old building.
Hyde said the new office will have about 20 individual offices and the whole building will be wired for the latest technology as well as efficiency.
“We’ll be able to update for new technology,” she said. “We’re updating so that we have the most current electronic and document storage facility for our client records.”
Hyde said the new building will cost approximately $850,000 and should be completed by December.
She said the process, however, will ultimately end up taking about 21 months from the original idea to the actual anticipated completion of the building later this year.“It took longer to do this project than I thought,” she said. “I looked for land in this area, because I love this area where we’re located, for about a year until I found right here on our doorstep the one piece of land in this project that had not been built on.”
The project is financed by SpiritBank and Hyde and her husband Vernon will own the building.
And with the luxury of designing every aspect of her own space, Hyde said one important factor to her was being toward the front of the building and not tucked away in an office at the back. “I want to be upfront,” she said. “I love to see my clients come and go.”
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