A luxurious sportswear enterprise ideas to move to Tucson in what business enterprise boosters pitch as the initial of various relocations that build a area style sector.
WOW Studios will shift its headquarters from Seattle to a 17,000-sq.-foot place at Just one East Toole Avenue, the enterprise announced Monday. The studio’s signature line, Buki, gives superior-conclude complex clothing developed by Joey Rodolfo and Stacey Bennett. The new area will include structure studios and place of work house slated to open up in January and provide 50 jobs to Tucson, according to Solar Corridor.
“Joey and I began talking various months back, and I immediately understood what a wonderful possibility this was – to be on the slicing edge of innovation in this discipline,” claimed Solar Corridor president and CEO Joe Snell in a push release.
Rodolfo announced his intention to leave Seattle subsequent protests that erupted in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. “Given that we have no leadership and we have a metropolis council that’s so socialist, there actually is quite, quite small help for organizations,” he reported in a June job interview with Fox News.
Rodolfo is a design and style sector veteran acknowledged for revitalizing the Tommy Bahama brand. He attended the University of Arizona as an undergrad and formerly sat on the nationwide board of administrators for the Eller College of Administration, according to his LinkedIn profile.
In a press launch, Rodolfo explained he hopes to leverage wearable technologies investigate coming out of the university. “My vision is to establish Tucson as the up coming hub of innovative style not just in style, but in health/wellness and wearable tech,” he mentioned.
Rio Nuevo board chair Fletcher McCusker explained the news of a new organization moving downtown blunts a string of negative information for Tucson’s at the time-booming core. Café Poca Cosa, one particular of Tucson’s most acclaimed eating places introduced past week it would be closing forever thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.
McCusker mentioned he remains hopeful for Tucson will arise from the pandemic extra appealing to firms than it was prior to. “This could be just the beginning of an option to recruit manner style and design, maybe even create an sector sector that Tucson hasn’t loved historically.”