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Looking for “co-working” space in Knoxville
Posted By katie allison granju
This blogger is looking for shared work space in Knoxville:
You see, I need to get out of our house a couple times a week (or more, depending) to just work. In some cities they call this “shared” or “co-working” spaces. Essentially it’s a place you go where you pay a portion of the rent, but you’re not really there all the time, or you don’t need the trappings of a full office.
Think of it like a micro-time-share. While at Macworld last week I visited the “offices” of Plasq, makers of some great Mac software. Their team is distributed across the planet, and a couple times a year they descend upon one geographic location to work together. In San Francisco they are using a place called “Citizen Space” which is very cool (just look at their bathroom!).
So I’m looking for something like that. Either a corner of someone’s established office, or a larger space where a few of us home-based workers can set up shop. I’d happily share the costs, or pay someone a monthly pseudo-rent. Does something like this even exist in Knoxville? And yes, I’m aware of Executive Suites. Personally I think those are overpriced, not to mention quite sterile and rather far from my home location.
Ideally this would be downtown somewhere. I mean, if we’re encouraging folks to live and work downtown, and you want the type of creative workers that flourish in a downtown space, shouldn’t there be some place where they don’t have to spend hundreds a month on rent? Not just a coffee shop, which is nice for occasional use, but not great for long periods of work.
Speaking of this co-working trend, ex-Knoxvillian Spike Gillespie happens to be the official blogger for Austin, TX co-working company, LaunchPad.
Jan 22nd, 2008
I’m pretty sure they have this at the Commerce building, where you can rent a desk with others. I used to know an architect who did that.