Concrete Thoughts
ruckus has a new home. After nearly two decades in the Lofts San Marco, we’ve relocated to Dennis + Ives in the Rail Yard District.
We didn’t fully appreciate the parallel until we left, but spending 19 years inside a converted school building was our own kind of education. We grew, tested ourselves, got wiser. Then the bell rang for the last time, we picked up, walked out and graduated to a new space.
Now, we’re in a warehouse.
A converted cold-storage warehouse, to be precise. Concrete, brick, industrial, practical, with large windows that invite the light in. The trains roll by the old loading dock just outside our space, and we don’t mind a bit. There’s something fitting about the sound of wheels on tracks - things moving, the world doing its work. That’s kind of the point for us.
A warehouse isn’t meant to impress. It’s meant to function. Things arrive, raw and unfinished, in transition, and they get worked on, sorted, shaped, and sent back out into the world, better for having been here.
That’s exactly what we’ve always been about. We're builders. We bring in the raw materials - insights, inspiration, ambition - put them on the table, and get to work. Brands, campaigns, stories, ideas: we transform them all. What leaves our hands is real, useful and good.
Our old space was about who we were becoming, and this one fits who we are. We’re not a flashy firm, we’re a working one. And this warehouse - big and honest and full of potential - feels like the perfect home for where we are now.
There’s room here. Room to think, spread out and work together on ideas that need space to breathe. Same purpose, same people, with higher ceilings and trains rolling by to remind us that momentum matters.
Still a force for good. Just with more square footage.
Written by Dan Croft, Director of Client Services
ruckus is a full-service marketing and advertising agency in Jacksonville, Florida. Our new address is 1505 Dennis Street, Suite 500, Jacksonville, FL 32204