Offices, clinics and shops
Office, medical and retail moves in Marin
A crew leader walks the site first; imaging machines, surgical tools and store fixtures move on a plan built around your downtime.
How a business move goes wrong
A business move rarely fails because a desk gets scratched. It fails on the schedule: the phones are down on a Monday, the clinic is not ready to see patients, the store was meant to reopen on Friday and is still half in boxes. Every day of that is lost revenue, and nobody quotes it on the estimate.
Each kind of move has its own trap. Offices lose time to unlabeled workstations and cabling that nobody mapped. Medical rooms hold imaging machines and delicate surgical tools that are very different loads to carry, and they cannot be treated like furniture. Retail moves go sideways between the packing and the installation, when fixtures arrive in an order that does not match how the shop floor gets built.
Then there is the building itself. Loading docks, elevators and a street torn up in front of the entrance can change a plan on the morning of the move.
Crew loading a large framed sofa form onto a Mayflower flatbed trailer
How Farnsworth plans a commercial relocation
For an office, a Farnsworth crew leader walks the building with you before anything is packed to survey the work. The crew leader also consults your relocation coordinator or site team so the crew knows your expectations before the first box is moved. The scale can be a few rooms or an entire corporate campus.
Medical Facility Relocations get a customized plan that fits your budget and timeline. The team has experience moving all types of hospital equipment, from large imaging machines to delicate surgical tools. Retail relocations are handled from packing and loading through transportation and installation, so the space is up and running as quickly as possible.
The family has worked out of San Rafael since 1971, and the commercial division works as a single resource, so storage and moving come from the same company rather than a patchwork of vendors. One customer, who signs the review as SJP Director, had the crew move a preschool and a church; when unexpected work started in front of the building, Kirk and his team worked over the weekend to speed up the schedule.
Once the doors are open again
The move is finished when the business is working, not when the truck is empty. Walk the new space with the crew leader before the crew goes, and flag anything that sits in the wrong room while it is still easy to shift.
If a lease overlaps or the new space is not ready for everything, equipment and furniture can wait in the Farnsworth warehouse at 2111 Francisco Blvd E. Questions about timing, or about a move that is still in the planning stage, go to (415) 459-6683.
Kirk and Bryan were fantastic to work with and moved our preschool and church. The reviewer signs as SJP Director.
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When the new space is not ready for everything
A phased business move often needs a holding place in the middle. Furniture, files and fixtures can wait in mover-managed storage in San Rafael. If the relocation takes your business out of Marin, the long-distance moves page covers the Mayflower side of the trip. To start the walk-through, send us the address and the date you are aiming for.