Who we are

We help brands plan, design, and build innovative spaces that turn heads and accelerate growth.

Your Space: Ready to Experience, to the Last Detail

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

100+ Years of Innovation

With NewGround International, you can combine your groundbreaking vision with the innovation, experience, and team to make it happen.

One Team, Start to Finish

Everything you need to take your vision from dream to done. We’re your single-source provider: strategy, design, build, interiors.

Build a Brand Experience

More than buildings and interiors. We create one-of-a-kind experiences so you can draw more people in and keep them coming back.

People First

Create strategies and spaces that align your goals with your people — those you work with and serve.

Vendors Collaborators

We keep communication channels open, ask hard questions, and tackle your challenges with you.

Our Offerings

Fit our team to your organization’s ambitions and goals. Choose one, a few, or all of our services to accomplish your vision.

Business, Brand, and Location Alignment

Our strategy-first approach means we start on a foundation of collaboration. We work with you to ensure your design and build projects align with your vision and stimulate growth.

Architecture, Engineering, and Interior Design

Three disciplines work together to translate your brand into spaces that feel like you, inspire your people, and help meet your objectives.

Project Management and Construction Management

We bring our expertise to your location, working with and managing local General Contractors. We coordinate the project (and help you mitigate risk) so you can focus on the big picture.

Environments, Technology, Furniture & Fixtures

Our turnkey Interiors solution prepares your space to experience to the last detail. Leverage our furniture dealership with access to 60+ open-line furniture manufacturers including MillerKnoll.

Our Expertise

No project is without challenge.

But no matter what happens, our Financial Team works with you to accomplish your goals. That’s the NewGround difference.

01. Workplaces

02. Prototypes

03. Rollouts

04. Renovations

Workplaces

State-of-the-art spaces. Landmark-level designs. Built so your team can thrive.

Prototypes

Designed to Scale. Designed for Growth. Designed for “wow.”

Rollouts

Opportunities presented → Opportunities seized.

Renovations

Brand guidelines: Achieved Expectations: Exceeded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Groundbreakers Who Chose NewGround

Our Core Values are at the Heart of Everything We Do

Servant Leadership

There is nothing more thrilling for us than to see our clients and employees succeed. Our business is about transforming big goals into achievements that our clients and people celebrate.

ExcelleNce

Our talented team members are driven from within to be the best in the industry. We have a deep passion for strategy and a knack for flawlessly executing the smallest details.

Innovation

We think beyond the present to where your organization is going. Combining research with creativity, we bring the spaces of the future into reality today.

Collaboration

We build spaces that foster human connection and believe that the best ideas result from the collision of different perspectives.

Communication

Openness, clarity, and transparency are critical to building and maintaining successful relationships. We take the time to communicate and listen with care.