[Coworking] Re: New coworking space in Vancouver, WA

2017-05-15 Thread whersowitz
Congrats on your new space. What issues have you been faced with so far? I am frequently talking with customers in your same position and have been hearing that locating a building is the most tedious part so congrats again on getting past this step. On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 5:39:28 PM

Re: [Coworking] Coworking in Small Towns - Discussion Group?

2017-05-15 Thread Jerome Chang
Are you on Slack? Jerome > On May 15, 2017, at 9:44 AM, Lauren McDaniel wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know if there is currently a discussion group that specifically > focuses on coworking in small towns? I don't want to recreate something, if > it already exists

[Coworking] Re: Have anyone here applied Feng Shui in their coworking space decoration?

2017-05-15 Thread Carolyn Cirillo
A New York designer I know, Julie Schuster, works extensively in the Feng Shui area. She primarily does residential work, but you can find some videos and other information on her blog: https://www.jlsdesignstudio.com/copy-of-home-staging-video. If you get in touch, tell her I sent you! Best,

[Coworking] Re: What to do about hyper competitive coworking atmosphere...

2017-05-15 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Have you talked to Oren Solomon of Dallas Fort Work? On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 12:47:41 PM UTC-6, Steve Floyd wrote: > > After slimming down my web design & digital marketing > agency, I recently turned my 4500 sq ft office > into a coworking space

[Coworking] Converted factory spaces (or other adaptive reuse coworking projects)

2017-05-15 Thread Carolyn Cirillo
Hi all -- I'm doing a design-focused series on coworking spaces created from former factories, or similar semi-industrial beginnings. If your space fits this criteria and you'd like to be featured, please contact me at caro...@carolyncirillo.com. Photos a must (before and after preferred,

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Indeed. My comments are reflective more of logic not the lawfulness/compliance of ADA in new construction/remodels. There's a logic in my thought that no one using a wheelchair could get upstairs so the size of the closet doesn't matter. If they are sight/hearing/cane using, then size of

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 9:08:34 AM UTC-6, Jerome wrote: > > Clarification: ADA covers all disabilities, even those with a cane, > partially/fully blind, etc. ADA isn’t just for those in wheelchairs. > So yeah, that means some disabled people can climb all those stairs. :-/ > > > *JEROME

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Jerome Chang
Clarification: ADA covers all disabilities, even those with a cane, partially/fully blind, etc. ADA isn’t just for those in wheelchairs. So yeah, that means some disabled people can climb all those stairs. :-/ JEROME CHANG <> talk to us: (323) 330-9505 <> chat w/ us: 

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
Yeah, if someone with a disability somehow found themselves up our 3 exterior stairs, then over a high threshold then up not 1 but 2 flights of stairs into the coworking space--yes, they would probably be upset with our small closets. On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8:58:29 AM UTC-6, Jerome wrote:

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Jerome Chang
> and before Jerome freaks out about ADA, our building is not ADA accessible > *at all*. You have to take stairs to get anywhere as it was built in 1968 so > we didn't have to comply with those modern standards. haha. No freaking out. Just advising from the point of view as both an architect

[Coworking] Re: Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Angel Kwiatkowski
I think the necessity for phone booths is often born in spaces that are smaller and where you can't get away from one another. Our first space had 1 space to hide in for calls and it just wasn't enough. For the past 5 years, we've had a large closet split into 2 rooms

[Coworking] Member Communication

2017-05-15 Thread Brooke
Hi! What does everyone use to communicate with members that is easy and not too expensive. Kind of like Slack or Workplace. Thanks! -- 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.

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Alex Hillman
Be sure to give this group's archives a search for this topic of phone booths, it's come up a bunch of times before . I can speak from the POV of having had *no* dedicated phone rooms in our original 1800 square

Re: [Coworking] Closet Phone Booth

2017-05-15 Thread Jerome Chang
5x5 is generous from what I usually see. Is it ADA compliant? I tested out https://www.jabbrrbox.com @GCUC in NY earlier this month. Solid. They have an ADA compliant version as well, but of course, it’s at least 5’x5’…likely 6’x6’ all said and done. The smaller