February 2012
3 posts
The phone booth project
As Workantile’s membership has grown, one of the challenges we are facing is competition for semi-private places to make phone calls. Sometimes all the conference rooms, the designated phone room, and the other nooks and crannies of the space are filled with people on the phone. We kicked around a number of different scenarios to solve this, when my colleague Trek spotted an old-fashioned...
What it costs to run a coworking space - pt. 2
In my previous post on what it costs to run a coworking space, the question came up about how many members do we need to break even. The answer to this is a bit complicated.
Workantile only has shared desks, we don’t have permanent desks and have no plans at this time to have any. This give us a lot of flexibility in how the space is used.
We have four membership levels:
Full member -...
What it costs to run a coworking space
There has been some chatter on the global coworking Google group about the costs to start and run a coworking space. Alex Hillman of IndyHall discussed it on his blog, and I thought I would talk about Workantile here.
Workantile leases about 3,200 square feet on Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor. It is on the ground floor in a former retail space, and our rent reflects that at almost $25/square...
January 2012
1 post
Reboot
The Penultimate Word lay fallow for some time, but I am rebooting it as a blog dealing with the challenges and rewards of running a coworking community, on software development, and with the occasional rant thrown in.