Good luck! Anything i can do, just ask! typed choppily on my Nexus One....
On Apr 9, 2010 2:12 PM, "Tony Bacigalupo" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello everyone! New Work City's about to embark on a crazy, unprecedented journey. Some background: Our current space is a sub-sublet, which we found through mutual friends. Long story short, our sublessor is bailing out, and the prime leaseholder found a new tenant before we had a chance to strike a deal with them ourselves. This all unfolded over the course of the past several weeks. While we've been preparing to move to a larger space for quite some time, we obviously weren't expecting to need to move quite so quickly. How quickly? May 1st. Yes, May 1st. Deep breath. After about a solid week of panic and scrambling, I managed to settle down a bit and get some perspective. We're going to make this work. The community will step up and we'll turn this into a fantastic opportunity to grow. So that's exactly what we're going to do. I wrote a blog post outlining how we're going to tackle our transition: http://www.nwcny.com/blog/2010/04/new-project-nwc-2-0/ There's much more to come, but I wanted to let all of you know that I intend to document everything that happens as much as I can, both so I can better empower my community to help, but also as a case study for coworking space owners. The next several weeks and months will see wild successes and failures as we work on this transition, and all of it should hold valuable lessons for the rest of us. The above blog post doesn't have all the answers-- I honestly don't know exactly what will happen post May 1st just yet. But I do know that what happens is going to be shaped by the community, which has already stepped up in a big way to, at the very least, reassure me that they stand ready to help. I put off posting it for a while, but I knew that ultimately I had to start sharing everything that's happening so everyone can be in the loop and so people can be in a better position to help. It's important to share what's going on, even if it means admitting that you've failed at some things. People will respect your honesty. And that's what this is all about, my friends. I did a town hall last week to discuss everything with the members, and while I felt pretty awful about things at that point, the response from the people who attended was unbelievable. Several people spoke up and said some of the most eloquent and compelling things I've ever heard anyone say about NWC and what it is that we're trying to do. I said it in the blog post but I'll repeat it here: New Work City is a community first and a business second, and now we're going to have a chance to prove it. The next several weeks and months will be wild, and along the way the community is going to have a chance to show just how powerful it can be when it comes together to achieve a common goal. We're going to make a statement. And when it's all said and done, we'll be settling into a big beautiful new home that's going to be built to last. And we'll have a big party to celebrate. But until then, we have a lot of work to do. Stay tuned, friends! Things are about to get crazy. Best, Mayor Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Work City - Work with, not for. Web: http://nwcny.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/nwc Email: [email protected] Phone: (888) 823-3494 -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
