New Orleans powerhouse development agency Landis Development has opened its first out-of-market workplace in Pensacola, Florida, marking the primary time the family-owned firm has expanded its footprint outdoors the state because it was based in 1956.

“We see Landis as a Gulf South contractor,” mentioned Anne Teague Landis, the third technology to run the corporate based by her grandfather. “The Pensacola workplace provides us farther attain alongside the panhandle and into Alabama and Georgia.”

The Florida workplace positions Landis to bid on related tasks it already has a profitable monitor report for in Southeast Louisiana: hospitality, historic, civil, workplace, multi-family and academic tasks.

Landis mentioned whereas firm management had beforehand thought-about out-of-town work, a giant impetus to develop places of work past Louisiana was in the course of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in 2021 when providers, together with web connectivity, remained unstable.

As an emergency, Landis labored with an area builder and companion to arrange a small satellite tv for pc workplace in Cellular, Alabama on the time to assist its tasks, shoppers and companions.

“That gave us a primary style (of out of state),” Landis mentioned.

Pensacola was a superb market to develop the corporate’s attain whereas additionally being shut sufficient to its New Orleans headquarters for normal in-person contact, Landis mentioned.

“We purchased a constructing and have renovated it into our small workplace there, proper off Backyard Road,” Landis mentioned. “Each the situation and the tradition of Pensacola felt like the best match. Lots of our group members have attachments to Pensacola, and it instantly started to really feel like dwelling.”

The Pensacola workplace has one full-time worker and extra deliberate to come back on board.

“It’s essential to us to stay a cohesive, single firm,” Landis mentioned. “That is an journey for us. Being adventurous has dangers, and this definitely does, however it additionally provides us the possibility to broaden the influence of constructing lasting relationships to offer higher alternatives for all of us.”