Behind the Walls: How Savannah’s Next Great Business Address Is Coming to Life

There’s a building at the Gateway to Savannah that most drivers on I-95 have passed a thousand times without a second glance. After the next few months, that’s about to change.

Tucked at the interchange of I-95 and Highway 204 — one of the busiest crossroads on the Georgia coast — a 14,490-square-foot building is undergoing a full transformation. When the dust settles this November, it will open as Office Evolution Savannah Gateway, a flexible workspace built for the entrepreneurs, remote professionals, and growing businesses who call the Lowcountry home.

We want to pull back the curtain on that process: not just what’s coming, but how it’s being built, square by square (literally).

From Empty Floor Plan to Savannah’s Newest Address

Right now, the building is mid-transformation: walls are being rearrange (coming down and going up!), studios are taking shape, and a design concept years in the making is finally becoming physical space. Over roughly three months, this formerly generic office building is being reimagined into:

• 76 private offices for solo practitioners and small teams
• 3 day offices for members who need a professional space for a few hours, not a few months
• 3 conference rooms for meetings that deserve more than a coffee shop table
• 8 dedicated desks for members who want a consistent spot without a private office
• Generous open coworking space, a soaring light-filled lobby, and a member lounge

It’s the kind of buildout that, from the outside, looks just another construction project. From the inside, it’s something more specific: a workspace being built with Savannah’s identity baked into its bones.

A Design Concept Rooted in the City Itself

Most flexible workspaces could be dropped into any city in America and no one would notice. That’s not the goal here.

The design draws directly from Savannah’s historic squares: the shaded, oak-lined public spaces General Oglethorpe laid into the city’s original 1733 plan. Office corridors and private studios throughout the building carry the names of those squares, so navigating the space feels a little like navigating the city itself. Conference rooms are named for the three counties that surround Savannah—Chatham, Effingham, and Bryan. A quiet Coquina huddle room nods to the shell-stone found along the coast. And mail service is handled at a Franklin Square center, a small tribute to Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first Postmaster General.

Even the color palette was chosen with intention: a coastal Lowcountry story told in soft sea-glass greige, warm sand, and the blues and sage greens of sky and marsh, developed in partnership with local award-winning designer, The Citrus Home.

A Family Project, Built Locally

This isn’t a corporate buildout managed from a distance. Office Evolution Savannah Gateway is owned and operated locally by the Kavlie family who have called Chatham County “home” since 2011. Kavlie’s career has centered on supporting remote and distributed teams. The interior design is being led by his wife, an award-winning designer and owner of The Citrus Home, with their children pitching in on the buildout — a genuinely local, genuinely hands-on project from the ground up.

Why It Matters for Savannah’s Business Community

Savannah is growing fast. Between the ongoing boom at the Hyundai Metaplant in neighboring Bryan County and the steady expansion of the Southside and Pooler corridors, more entrepreneurs, contractors, suppliers, and remote professionals are putting down roots here every month — and most of them are working somewhere between a home office and a downtown high-rise that doesn’t quite fit.

That’s the gap this building is being built to fill: a professional, full-service workspace in the suburbs that is easy to reach off the interstate without sacrificing the polish of a corporate office or the character of the surrounding cities.

Follow the Transformation

Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing more of this process — from construction milestones to first looks at finished studios — as this building becomes Savannah’s newest destination address for local business.

If you’re curious what a workspace built specifically for Savannah looks like, or you’re ready to claim your spot before the doors open, email [email protected]. We’d love to show you around, even mid-construction.

Office Evolution Savannah Gateway — coming this December to the corner of I-95 and Highway 204.