Workspring has been open in Chicago for many years now. I visited it last year and my understanding is that it's not a coworking space, but a business meeting center. Yes, he interior is beautiful, but the isolated meeting rooms for groups to rent don't really facilitate coworking, but off-site group meeting space. Did you see information that they were opening a 2nd location with a different design to facilitate more of a coworking experience?
Adrienne On Jan 10, 3:19 pm, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking <[email protected]> wrote: > Steelcase, the parent company of Turnstone, is opening up a coworking space > for corporations called WorkSpring <http://www.worksping.com> in a large > high-rise in Chicago next month. They are taking over a floor and making it > a beautiful and high quality coworking space for outsiders and people in > the building, whom get a discount. Now I'm often very weary when > corporations open up a coworking space because it might lack the culture > that makes a lot of us - well us -- but Steelcase is different. They > studying culture and space design with a huge R&D budget and write amazing > papers about it. > > WorkSpring <http://www.workspring.com> is taking what coworking is doing > and bringing it into the corporate world where the needs are slightly > different because they already have a team and group of people that break > the isolation. They are more into provide a flexible workspace, but also > designing the space for casual interactions between people from different > corporations. I'm really interested to see if they host casual and > education events that a lot of us put on for our freelancer and mobile > workers that want some more social interactions. If they do it right then I > think they will. > > I'm excited to see where this goes and I'm already reaching out to many of > the people there to dig deeper into their vision. > > Craig > Denver, CO > Creative Density -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
