Craig, thank you for the inspiration & wonderful note! Adrienne, thanks for prompting my overdue introduction!
For the past 3 1/2 years I have had the pleasure of working with the turnstone team to support small business. In fact, I know a few of you from coworking forums that we hosted with turnstone in Chicago and turnstone's involvement in GCUC, SxSW and other activities within the coworking community. Looking to spend more time in Chicago and a new adventure, I recently joined the Workspring team. Last week Monday Workspring officially opened our doors to our new location in the iconic Inland Steel Building at 30 West Monroe in the heart of Chicago's Loop. Our location at 12 East Ohio in the River North neighborhood, which opened in 2008, remains open and as Adrienne mentioned, offers space & services for group sessions and events. With our second location we have doubled the size of our first space and expanded our offerings to include corporate coworking and project space in addition to group sessions and social events. If you would like to preview the spaces, you'll find links to a fly through of each location at www.workspring.com. If you are in Chicago, please join us for our Grand Opening Party on Thursday, February 7th from 5:30-8:00pm, http://workspring-intheloop.eventbrite.com/. Carly *workspring | 312 298 9330* *[email protected]* *www.workspring.com* t: @carly_johnston <https://twitter.com/Carly_Johnston> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Adrienne N <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- carly johnston 312.298.9330 twitter.com/carly_johnston <http://www.twitter.com/carly_johnston> -- 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.
