Law firm transforming longtime Phoenix bar into new office space
Nov 3, 2024, 12:00 PM
A former sports bar is being repurposed into an office space for land use law firm Withey Morris Baugh. The project is expected to be completed by spring 2025. (The Flip Side photo)
(The Flip Side photo)
PHOENIX — Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill closed its doors in February after 18 years of serving the Valley and will now be repurposed into an office space for land use law firm, Withey Morris Baugh, according to a Friday press release.
The space, acquired from investment firm Holualoa Companies, was estimated to be completely transformed in the spring of 2025.
Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill, situated at 2121 East Highland Avenue, had been a gathering space for Chicago sports fans as well as a host for University of Alabama and Florida State University alumni groups for more than 15 years.
Withey Morris Baugh, an Arizona-based firm since 1996, said it will preserve elements of the former restaurant, including the bar top, as part of its commitment to retain history while reimaging spaces.
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“We’re anything but traditional attorneys, so it’s important for us to be able to develop something that is not just another pedestrian office space,” Jason Morris, Withey Morris Baugh founding partner, said in a release. “And as zoning and land use experts, it’s especially meaningful to finally have our own piece of dirt.”
Holualoa Companies, which owns the greater WaterView property where the former bar sits, said this is just the latest development on the 13 acres that was once a part of a nine-hole golf course.
Other recent add-ons to the property located off of SR 51 and Highland Avenue include shaded outdoor meeting spaces, a putting green, an outdoor kitchen and a reworked boardwalk that encompasses a two-acre lake.
“Partnering with Withey Morris Baugh to reimagine the restaurant space as a distinctive law office is a perfect fit for the evolution of WaterView,” Stan Shafer, COO of Holualoa, said in a release. “Their presence will add tremendous value to the property.
“There’s a lot of talk about the office market being in decline, but premium office destinations like WaterView, with attractive amenities offering inviting places where people want to go to work, are thriving.”
