Monday, June 23, 2014

Bottle Rocket Apps to relocate, expand within Addison

One of Dallas-Fort Worth’s fastest-growing companies, Addison-based Bottle Rocket Apps, a custom app developer for phones and other electronic devices, plans to relocate and expand within the town limits.

One of Dallas-Fort Worth’s fastest-growing companies, Addison-based Bottle Rocket Apps, a custom app developer for phones and other electronic devices, plans to relocate and expand within the town limits.
 
The app developer, which was recently bought by a London-based marketing firm, plans to relocate by the end of the year into 49,570 square feet of office space at The Aberdeen at 14841 Dallas Parkway in the town of Addison. The firm will leave its current office space at Wellington Centre.
 
“While we looked at just about every option you can imagine, we realized our first choice was the right choice,” said Founder and President Calvin Carter of Bottle Rocket Apps, in a written statement.
 
“Unlike any other part of DFW, Addison sits at the epicenter of business and lifestyle,” he added. “Once we realized that, there wasn’t anything else we would even consider.”
 
Since starting Bottle Rocket Apps with a few employees in 2008, Carter has grown his firm to more than 180 employees, with plans to hire more workers. The company has developed successful apps for high-profile clients, such as NPR, National Geographic and ABC News.
 
CBRE’s Jeff Eiting and Clay Vaughn represented Bottle Rocket Apps in the real estate deal. Sarah Catherine Norris, Mark Jordan and Ben Jones of Sooner Management represented the landlord, JP Aberdeen Partners LP.
 
In the past three years, Bottle Rocket Apps has grown and moved three times, said Eiting, a vice president of CBRE, who was also honored as one of this year’s Dallas Business Journal 40 Under 40 honorees.
 
As part of the move, Bottle Rocket Apps will receive building signage on the Aberdeen, which is the former headquarters building that housed Pizza Hut Inc.
 
Gensler and CBRE’s project management group are also working the move, building out the interior to have a “true headquarters” feel, Eiting said.