Thanks for the thoughtful intro, Andie! How'd you get involved in this project? It sounds like this is an interesting hybrid in a lot of ways, I'd love to know more about how it came to be!
-Alex On Tuesday, January 5, 2016, Andie Grace <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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. > -- ------------------ The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself. Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast -- 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.
