Hello All, Rick Myers from Strongbox West <http://strongboxwest.com>. We have just officially opened and we don't have lockers, but we did have two very nice sets of lockers that we sold about nine months ago.
Sadly the lockers were ignored for nearly ten years by almost everyone at our company, Talent Zoo <http://www.TalentZoo.com>. The concept of lockers is fun & was a perfect idea for Talent Zoo, but the lockers saw little to no use. With the exception of myself and my partner Amy, I don't think anyone really used them. They were brand new when we bought them and looked great in the place. After ten years of almost no use though we decided to sell the lockers. I was sad to sell them and see them leave the joint, but no one used them and I was fairly certain we'd have no future use. That is until we decided to get into the coworking biz. When we decided to open Strongbox West, one of my first thoughts was "Damn, wish we hadn't sold our lockers." They lockers would have been perfect for Strongbox. They were a cool blue and looked brand new, minus the Van Halen sticker and a Talent Zoo sticker on the inside of my locker. Anyway, my remorse quickly subsided. As I walked by our empty lockers daily, I remember thinking what a shame it was no one really used them. Seemingly a great idea, like so many, that never took off. Although I am uncertain, my guess id our lockers would see little use at Strongbox, just like at Talent Zoo. For some reason, it seems most people like the idea of lockers more than the reality. In the end, I'm glad we Cragislisted 'em traveled to the bar with the cash. Just my two pennies. BTW, you can reach me at [email protected] if you like. -Rick Rick Myers StrongboxWest.com Twitter.com/StrongboxWest Twitter.com/RickM and ten years later On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Susan Evans <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey all, > > Office Nomads chiming in. Similarly to others, we've got a set of > lockers that are never locked. :) Classic. People asked for them a > ton when we first opened, and we got them (also cheap from a reuse > store in Seattle), and then mostly they got ignored. Every once and a > while someone uses one for a couple of days, but more than anything > else I think they make people feel more comfortable. They're there if > they need them, even if they don't... > > For our residents, we provide a small locking rolling cabinet that > they can use. That has shown to be a great value to members - we hear > more and more from them that the cabinets were part of what got them > excited to be a resident. They get to leave their stuff here and feel > more at home. We found ours online for relatively cheap, but they > were still a pretty significant cost as far as buying stuff goes. But > definitely worthwhile. Ours are 3 drawers, locking, and roll across > the floor. Pretty simple. > > Good luck! > > Susan > > On Dec 13, 5:01 pm, Muskie <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > -- 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]. 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