OUR STORY

We wanted somewhere
to go. So we built it.

A social club designed for the way you actually live with your dog — without compromising on either side of the leash.

WHY WE BUILT THIS

Built around how people actually live with dogs.

We're dog owners first. We've spent too many afternoons either at a dog park where our dogs weren't safe, or at a restaurant where our dogs weren't welcome.

So we built a place where neither has to be true. A clubhouse with a real bar and a real kitchen. Yards your dog will actually look forward to. People on the floor who know your dog by name. The kind of place we'd build for ourselves — because we did.

Packyard at dusk — the campus from above

THE TEAM

Two co-founders. One bench. Built for this.

JIMMY PIEPRZYCA

CO-FOUNDER · STRATEGY & PLATFORM

Concept architect. Carries the standard across cities so each location can focus on operating well for its members.

ALEXANDRIA HEPPNER

CO-FOUNDER · OPERATIONS & HOSPITALITY

Day-to-day operator of the Chicago flagship. Hospitality background opening independent rooms. Owns the floor, the room, and the staff that members will get to know.

BUILD-OUT BENCH

ADVISORS · RETAINED

Behavior specialists with working-dog program credentials. Hospitality operators in Chicago and New York for the bar and kitchen. The bench you'd want behind the room you've never been to yet.

WHAT WE STAND FOR

A place. A standard. A neighborhood.

Packyard is built around a simple idea: dogs belong with their people, and their people belong with each other. The yards make that real for the dogs. The bar and the courtyard make it real for the people.

The rest is execution.

WHAT YOU'LL FEEL HERE

A place where your dog is welcome — actually, not as an afterthought.
A bar good enough that you'd come without your dog.
A team that knows your name and your dog's.
A Sunday roast worth structuring the week around.
The calm that comes from knowing the place is run well.