Greetings,
I've been lurking for about 2 months but it's time to introduce myself -
hello all, and thanks for this great resource!
My name is Andie Grace, a cofounding partner The Factory 510 in San
Leandro, CA. My biz partner and I have been running our space in beta
mode with a few early members, but are about to formally launch this month.
The Factory 510 is located inside a large commercial building that's
been operating as a light industrial/office space since the 70's --over
1 mm feet of office/light industrial/warehouse suites on the top floor,
and big tenant retail on the ground floor. This opportunity comes our
way to create the space here because we were originally hired by
building ownership to help reinvision the building as a creative center
for artists, tech startups, and makers. We've achieved this through
tenant programming, new tenant profiling and acquisition (especially a
lot of 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing), our marketing and
pr support, and lots of events and community building. We're having so
much fun!
Out of the building program effort came our idea for launching coworking
space here (http://thefactory510.com) which through partnership with
building management is able to make short-term use of various suites
throughout the building, and we're now adding a coworking/hotdesking
center. Like the building itself, The Factory 510 is aimed at this
creative Artist/Tech/Maker client profile -- we have a lot of large
scale art, filmmakers, photographers, visual artists working here
alongside other more traditional commercial tenants.
Some of our coworking members become long term tenants and move into
their own suites over time, and remain part of our community, and some
existing long term tenants use our coworking areas for their own
meetings and events or day by day coffee klatching. Because the
hotdesking area finally got permit clearance (yay!) we can open this
month for real -- so aside from getting it all running, a big current
concern is creating a true sense of communitas amongst 3 very different
user profiles as these communities blend. Our 3 types of users are:
- drop in hot desk/coworking members using semipublic/cowork area in our
new atrium
- short term members leasing out private spaces that may convert to
long term tenants in their own suite eventually
- existing and new long term tenant users who get access to the atrium
space and our events as a benefit of their long term lease
For this reason, the current discussion today about anchor tenants and
the challenge of teams vs. individuals in a space comes very timely!
Anyway, already learning so much from all your posts. Thanks to every
contributor on the list -- it's great to be here.
Smiles,
Andie Grace
TheFactory510.com
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