We help brands plan, design, and build innovative spaces that turn heads and accelerate growth.
We Serve Groundbreakers
Like You
Groundbreaking isn’t just an event. It’s who you are and what you do.
You see possibilities where others see problems—roadways where others see dead ends.
So do we.
With NewGround International, you can combine your groundbreaking vision with the innovation, experience, and team to make it happen.
Why Groundbreakers
Choose NewGround International
Our Offerings
Our Expertise
Workplaces
Tech-savvy, experiential corporate space — built to foster connection, collaboration, and growth.
Prototypes
The look. The layout. The experience. It should all work together to draw people in and keep them returning.
Rollouts
Need to roll out your brand across locations? With NewGround, you can use any combination of our offerings or get our single, turnkey experience.
Renovations
Transform existing spaces into on-brand, flexible, experiential environments.
What we mean when we say "Groundbreakers"
Groundbreakers — and the brands they represent — come in all shapes and sizes. They're leaders who choose progress over stagnation. They think locally and globally. And they're leaders, not just of business plans and processes, but real people whose success matters to them.
We've met Groundbreakers at international banks and community credit unions. Industry-defining restaurant chains and boutique hotels. Fashion brands and real estate developers. Leaders like you.
Wherever you're innovating, we want to help.
Innovating since 1913
We started by outfitting — then designing and building — financial institutions. Since our founding, we’ve invented the modern branch format, pioneered the drive-through, introduced retailing, merchandising, and digital signage to modern banking, and introduced the first-ever universal banker at Umpqua Bank.
But we also designed the original Howard Johnson orange roof. Created the brand for 1-800-Flowers. Developed the prototype for clicks-to-bricks jewelry retailer Blue Nile. Built a fast-paced retail rollout team for brands like Starbucks and Dior. And so much more.
Today, with offices in St. Louis, Chicago, Waterloo, Denver, and Vancouver, we continue to provide strategy-first design/build services for corporate workplaces and retail locations across industries worldwide.
Our Core Values are at the Heart of Everything We Do
The NewGround Team
Local Resources. Global Expertise.
At NewGround International, we’re architects and engineers. Business and brand strategists. Interior designers and builders.
We collaborate with innovative brands that want to do more than build buildings or open new spaces. We work with pacesetters positioned to speed their brand into the future.
The NewGround Way: Aligning Brand, Place, and Culture
A building isn’t just a company’s physical presence. It can define your conversation with consumers, your employees, and the community.
You should only break ground once you’ve uncovered a groundbreaking solution that aligns this new place with your brand and culture. In doing so, something extraordinary happens.
You create a space that facilitates engaging experiences for consumers and your employees by shaping how a space makes you feel.
Our Work
