I just asked the same thing of my cowork community, small but growing. Although not even close to statistically relevant numbers, all of them said proximity to food and beverage were paramount - meaning a very short car ride and/or walk to was best.
- 43% proximity to food and beverage - 29% parking availability - 14% easy access in/out of parking lot; and commute time - 0% access to I-35 (the highway arterial) - boy I was wrong about this one! Now Alex and many others advocate for pop-up coworks and I've done that pretty consistently through the past year and it hasn't gleaned as much as I would have expected. I've had more luck with a Meetup that brought together cowork mornings and other types of events together under one umbrella, as a community builder. I'm in a community that doesn't know coworking (we're outside of Austin, home to 27 cowork spaces) and the past year has been an educational and advocacy period. Of the 4 major cities in this county, two have viable downtowns, but all are cost prohibitive. I'm considering the location of large neighborhoods that have work at home populations and just today, tapped into that community via Facebook. (25% of our cowork community is from that area). I also chose the city (of Round Rock) because it has a vibrant economic community (and I'm a member of their Chamber). The city and Chamber had been considering a cowork space for years, but dropped it and it had a jelly for a few years, that petered out in 2012 (which we're trying to revive). My approach to starting a cowork is like farming: seed community members grow other members. Jen www.EngageCowork.com -- 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
