Fast-growing firm gets new digs

Tampa recently won a new corporate headquarters, but unlike in some past victories, there was little public fanfare to trumpet the move.

The company is Environmental Pest Service, which had been based in Sarasota since the 1950s, where for many years it was a local leader under the name Arrow Pest Control. EPS signed a five-year lease on a 7,800-square-foot office in Bay West Center in the Westshore business district. The company has 35 employees for its internal headquarters operations, and most of them made the move north, says CFO David Bradford.

“We just finally outgrew our space in Sarasota,” Bradford tells Coffee Talk. “It made sense for us to move to Tampa.”