One thing I've found is people want everything and they want to pay little or nothing. cowork...@bob is getting looked at and one thing people comment on is we have a lot of space. This is because we're in the inner-city, Chinatown, and we have good relations with our landlord who gets what we're about.
So even before we buy lockers we have a loading bay, litterally big enough to park a truck in, we're using this for bike storage and for events we'll probably move some unneeded furniture back and forth, we plan to get some stackable chairs so you can do sort of a speaker and audience type set up in the main room. Then in our eating area we have a wall of cubbies as people seem to call them, then someone asked for lockable filing so I carried one of our spare filing cabinets downstairs, we also have 7 or 8 big desks which have lockable drawers and filing. We then have tables, chairs, a couch, a bay window. Like I said we have space. I'm now thinking of charging say 5 bucks a month for a lockable drawer, 10 bucks for a gym locker which we will buy off craigslist and place on the wall opposite the cubbies, and of course maybe 15 or 20 for a dedicated filing cabinet which certain organizations who may call us home seem to want. The desks have room for files, but by cubic volume will come out smaller than the lockers or the cabinet perhaps. We're not doing dedicated desks, we want things to be nice and clean, so we don't want people leaving stuff on "their" desk. In the eating area is also this Ikea side table I assembled it has several drawers and shelves too. Then there is more storage elsewhere on the main floor, such as the loading bay, some people just seem to want something they can lock and call their own and we're not going to turn those people away. But we've drawn the lines at private desks, it is first come first served on the biggest nicest desks on a daily basis. We hope that by offering a variey of seating options from casual to formal, from off in the corner by yourself to sitting on a couch with some blogger people will find a comfortable and productive spot at cowork...@bob. Cheers, -- 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.
