Thanks Adrienne! Great to meet you. You do have some awesome coworking spots in Austin - what a great city! Currently Workspring is just in Chicago and we have one location with Marriott in Redmond, WA, near Seattle.
Carly On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Adrienne N <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Carly, > Nice to meet you! What great news! So glad to see Steelcase has a > more coworking-style place. Wish you guys would open one like this in > Downtown Austin. We have some great ones here, but could really use > one like this Downtown. > Adrienne > > On Jan 23, 9:35 pm, Carly Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 atwww.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 athttp://discuss.coworking.com > > > --- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Coworking" group. > > > For more options, visithttps://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. > > > -- 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. 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