Hi, Kevin, Grand Junction has about 50K people with another 100 K in the surrounding unincorporated area and adjoining small towns. The main industries (since Black Sunday, when Exxon went away). The major industries are health care, tourism, agriculture, and gas & oil. It has also recently become popular with the private jet crowd, associated with ski resorts and so forth. It's a very western, very boom and bust kind of place.
Denver on the other hand has upwards of a half a million people, surging in the direction of three quarters of a million, and has an important economic driver in telecommunications. In Grand Junction you will be straddling the line between urban and rural coworking. (Rural coworking doesn't have to be rural; it has to do with the number of inhabitants available to draw from). I say these things in order to suggest to you this: Creative Density is the awesome-est. But it will be difficult to do the same thing in Grand Junction and make it work. I think Grand Junction on the face of it looks very promising; but you will want your approach to be a Grand Junction approach and not a Denver approach. Jeannine On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:37:40 AM UTC+2, Kevin Masten wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > This is my first post so I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Kevin > and I've been a coworker at Creative Density in Denver, CO since it opened > last year. I started as a one-day-a-week member and am now full-time. I've > found the entire experience immensely rewarding. > > I'm now considering relocationg to Grand Junction, CO. I've been here for > two weeks and have just started exploring the idea of starting a coworking > space. There isn't a space here and I'm really missing it. I've met with > the local business incubator and it sounds like several > people/organizations (including the incubator) have explored the idea. I > thought I would post here and see if there are others considering the same > thing in Grand Junction. > > I've built a "quick-and-dirty" website to use as a tool to educate the > community about coworking as well as to gauge interest: > grandjunctioncoworking.com. I'm open to feedback and would love to talk > to other folks from GJ who are interested in the idea. > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/yANV4vaA4ToJ. 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.
