Your mileage may vary, but we got absolutely no response from any kind of value added feature we tried to build in to coworking. There are definitely businesses that have built coworking around a specific feature (like Weld in Dallas, which has a very nice photography/video studio available for it's members) but IMO, the only people who are really concerned with built in features are the ones looking for higher end coworking. We're at a fairly low price point for the area, and our members/leads are pretty much only interested in location, atmosphere, price, and if they have a place to take phone calls.
On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:52:42 PM UTC-5, Jennifer Kready wrote: > > I'm considering real estate (for lease) in Round Rock, north of Austin > (basically just up the road) Most options are professional office suites > styles and some come with a large open space, ideal for open desking, but > none are just right which has me question: is it better to build out first > or hear what the members want, see how they use the space and build out > later? (knowing that causes an imposition). Not all landlords offer tenant > improvement dollars or concessions otherwise. > > Is this a case of the Henry Ford question, "If you asked people what they > wanted, they'd want faster horses?" Considering that this community > doesn't have coworking, yet. Am I the one to 'teach' them how to cowork > through the use of space, services, and community? > > Can a cowork take root and move forward in a space that looks like a > 'traditional' office space, but offers a completely different experience? > Do walls keep the community from forming successfully? Could a community > room offer the collective space although each office would have 4 desks per > (most are overly large offices)? > > Mostly I'm concerned that I build in a conference room and no one really > needs/uses it. I build in an audio studio and no one needs/uses it. I > have local area alternatives for these needs that I can purchase and pass > on to the members at a discount and/or value add. > > Thank you for your thoughts. > > Jen > > > > -- 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.
