ORANGE PARK – After 48 years at the same location, Challenge Enterprises will be moving its headquarters and main offices from Green Cove Springs to Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park.

Challenge Enterprises will be 50 years old in 2022. The organization is moving into a new, modern environment to keep up with growing demands.

“Now that we’re 48 years old, we’re finally getting space. Brand new space. I’ve been with the agency almost 30 years, and I’ve never seen this,” said Challenge Enterprises Chief Operations Officer Katie Vineyard.

Challenge Enterprises provides employments opportunities for people living with differences/disabilities. Last year, they provided 180,139 employment hours.

The new facilities will provide a better working space for Challenge’s brain trust to conduct their mission. Executive management will be located at the new offices along with administration.

“I think it’s going to help us be right here in the heart of Orange Park; the town of Orange Park is right here. We’re going to be right in the middle of it,” Vineyard said. “It’ll make a big difference I think in events that we can have. It’s going to have grass and lighting and it’s going to be beautiful.”

The new location has spaces for multiple individual offices, two kitchen areas, a large conference room and a file room. In addition to newly expanded and renovated office space, there is a large outdoor area which will eventually be used for gatherings and celebrations of things such as National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month.

“Moving into this space is kind of our, first time new headquarters,” said Stephanie Young, Activities Coordinator for Challenge Enterprises. “This will be mostly for our administrative staff and executive staff and sales teams and things like that.

We’re going to keep quite a bit at the Green Cove location but what it was, is we just have grown. And when you grow, you add more kids to the family and you need more bedrooms, so that’s basically what has happened. We’ve grown so much that we now had to create another space in Orange Park to accommodate all of our operations.”

Indoor Image: Stephanie Young (Activities Coordinator (L)) with Katie Vineyard (Chief Operations Officer (R)) inside of the newly renovated Challenge Enterprise office Headquarters.