Adaptive reuse project on Vernon Street in downtown Roseville lands office tenant

October 5, 2025

By Ben Van Der Meer-Senior Reporter-Sacramento Business Journal

An adaptive reuse project for the former home of SureWest in downtown Roseville isn't complete yet, but one tenant has already signed to occupy it.

Bennett Engineering Services, which also goes by BenEn, will consolidate two offices into 16,000 square feet on the second floor of 200 Vernon St., said broker David Khedry of Turton Commercial Real Estate

"This building works for them," said Khedry, who represented the firm in the deal. "It allows them to be in the action in downtown Roseville."

Khedry, a senior director at Turton Commercial, said the company was already based elsewhere in Roseville and recently bought another company based on the Highway 50 corridor. The 200 Vernon St. location, which the firm should move into by the end of 2026, will be big enough for all 50 employees, he said.

A message left with BenEn last week wasn't returned. Khedry said the firm's search went across the Sacramento region. But 200 Vernon St., being converted for both office and retail uses, was the one that fit the company's vision.

Bennett Engineering's lease takes up all but about 4,000 square feet of the office space available in the building, said Executive Vice President Scott Bennett of Colliers, who's representing the building ownership, Tower Investments LLC.

With that lease, he said, work will ramp up on getting the building ready for tenants. Colliers is also looking for a ground-floor retail or restaurant tenant for about 3,700 square feet, which would also be able to use a planned rooftop bar concept, Bennett said.

The ground floor will have a handful of other small retail spaces, suitable for tenants such as a coffee shop, he said. Plans filed with the city show most of those spaces around 900 or 1,000 square feet.

"It's a really lively area, and this is only going to inject more energy into the area," Bennett said of 200 Vernon St.

Tower Investments' original plans called for 12 residential units on the second floor, but Bennett said the developer dropped that for office space instead.

Originally the home of the Roseville Telephone Co., two-story 200 Vernon St. became known as the home of the telephone company's successor entity, cable company SureWest, in more recent years. Tower Investments bought it in 2021 for $3.2 million.