'Nother great piece covering the project motivations and goals, wanted to share here:
http://www.shareable.net/blog/indy-hall-coworking-expands-to-offer-cohousing -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]>wrote: > Sweet. I hope we learn lots worth sharing back here. > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Chad Ballantyne <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Love it Alex! >> We have a similar vision up here to expand to a village concept. You've >> re-awakened the dream! >> We will follow closely! >> >> Chad >> >> On 2011-05-10, at 2:30 PM, Angel Kwiatkowski wrote: >> >> Question 1: who approached who to start the project? >> Question 2: why do you rock so hard? >> >> Angel >> >> On May 10, 12:10 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> There's a good chance that you've heard me say (read: rant) something like >> >> "coworking isn't about the desks". >> >> >> Well, Indy Hall is working on a new project to really emphasize that we're >> >> thinking far beyond the desks, with an urban cohousing project that is the >> >> first step towards an entire Indy Hall-concepted Urban Village. >> >> >> http://village.indyhall.org >> >> >> I'm sure Raines is going to be excited to hear about our endeavors in >> >> cohousing. He's about to become one of our trusted advisors, even though >> he >> >> doesn't know it yet ;) >> >> >> To be clear - we're not building a live-work space. We're taking the best >> >> lessons we've learned in making our version of the best place to work and >> >> applying them to making our version of the best place to live. >> >> >> It's exciting, insane, and awesome to be learning so much so quickly >> again. >> >> Our development partners,http://postgreenhomes.com, have done some >> >> incredible work in the sustainable urban home industry and making >> >> Philadelphia a shining example, so you can imagine we're pumped to finally >> >> be working together. >> >> >> You can also check out some of the press we've garnered in the last week >> >> since the announcement - we've had inquiries for stories from bigger news >> >> outlets but we've decided to hold them off until we've got something >> bigger >> >> to show off. >> >> >> >> http://technicallyphilly.com/2011/04/26/indy-hall-and-postgreen-were-...http://www.flyingkitemedia.com/devnews/cohousing0510.aspx >> >> >> I'm particularly excited to be applying the lessons learned in building >> Indy >> >> Hall to another related endeavor, one that I expect will provide lessons >> we >> >> can apply back to the workspace as well. >> >> >> We've been fielding questions for the last couple of weeks since we >> >> announced the project so if anyone has them here, I'm happy to answer them >> >> as well. >> >> >> -Alex >> >> >> /ah >> >> indyhall.org >> >> coworking in philadelphia >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> Chad Ballantyne >> The Creative Space Director >> >> (705) 252-2423 >> www.thecreativespace.ca >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- 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.
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