Congrats, Dave on the new space. To Alex's question on floor plans, I am a former designer and do highly recommend laying out your space (to scale) early. You want to really have a feel for what will fit/not fit.
All the best, Felicity www.cubesandcrayons.com On Nov 21, 1:14 pm, "Alex Hillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm so excited about this! It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got to > watch the early bits of a Jelly in Baltimore come together. I've been > watching from afar and things are coming together fast!!! Nice work Dave! > > I think Dave knows where we're at here since we've spoken about our > situation, but I'll share with everyone else in the interest of sharing. > > We've got 13 full time desks and 9 "flex" (lite and dropin) desks in a > 1700ish sq foot room. That also includes our lobby, our conference room, > kitchen, and lounge. > > We started with less permanent (2 including myself) and a lot of flex, and > since then the scales have tipped on their own and the balance has > established itself. That took a couple of months, but it was headed that > direction before we even signed the lease. > > Clearly, the more full time desks, the better our profit margin. However > culturally, the daily mix of new people in the non full time desks makes it > much more ideal. We could sell all of our desks as permanent with the > waiting list we currently have, but won't. > > Some of this is also a product of the physical layout of a space, I think. > We experimented with a few different layouts (and still periodically shift > and optimize). Getting some actual floorplans to move paper "desks" around > on will be a HUGE help. > > Is there any interest in a floorplan-swap? Anyone particularly good in > Sketchup and willing to donate some time to "prettifying" our floorplans? > > -Alex > > -- > ----- > -- > ----- > Alex Hillman > im always developing something > digital: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > visual:www.dangerouslyawesome.com > local:www.indyhall.org > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Dave Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > We're pleased to announce the formation of Beehive Baltimore, the > > first formalized coworking initiative in Baltimore! > > > We've been meeting informally and are looking to open a space in the > > next few weeks. We are likely going to open with about 1200 sqft and > > then expand to 1700 or so soon after. > > > I have two questions for the group here: > > > 1) What proportion of full vs. part time desks seem to work best from > > a cultural and cashflow perspective? We are thinking perhaps 8 full > > and 6 part time desks. Feedback? > > > 2) What are folks' experiences regarding space requirements? How many > > folks can we fit in to 1200 or 1700 sqft and keep it productive? We > > guess about 15 in 1200sqft and perhaps 20-24 in 1700 (this space is > > more open). > > > Looking forward to your feedback! > > > Dave Troy > > Beehive Baltimore LLC > > @bhivebmore --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
