I just want to say that from my brief visit, it seems like a potentially very viable location for "pure" coworking: 5 min by bicycle or bus to downtown Palo Alto, and right in the heart of Menlo Park's thriving walkable high-end shopping downtown, close to CalTrain, adjacent to Atherton. The median income in Menlo is $85k (as of 1999); in West Menlo it was $125k; Atherton over $200k (with median home prices over $6m as of a year ago). The key thing is that the space is centrally located in the heart of a high-income area with lots of high-tech entrepreneurs and work-at-home businesspeople who, in the face of the collapse of the VC engine that has urged them to spend mucho bucks and go out and rent expensive space so they look expensive enough to acquire/invest in. They are now being told "go back to the garage" and eliminate unnecessary expenses, and coworking can provide a great way to "keep hope alive" and still do client meetings and keep a team together without paying the still-inflated rents for scarce office space or putting up with the privacy issues and inconvenience/embarrassment of trying to have professional meetings at home. The space itself is up a set of stairs, with coworking check-in process and private/public/shared resource space allocation already figured out (the childcare was all at the back end so omitting that would simply add more flex space); you'd have to visit and negotiate with Felicity and Co. to figure out how much of the existing user base would stick with you and whether you'd be buying the business and/or fixtures vs. taking over the space and starting from scratch or just coming as a client. If you were pursuing a more grassroots/cooperative model vs. service-oriented high-end, you might prefer a different arrangement.
Raines Cohen, Coworking Coach <http://www.CoworkingCoach.com/> Planning for Sustainable Communities On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:58 AM, felicity at cubes < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Our main campus of Cubes&Crayons is moving north and we are thinking > of converting our existing space into a straight coworking space (no > childcare.) Would love to see who out there in Silicon Valley/ > Stanford area might be interested in a space in Menlo Park. Pop me an > email if you are interested. > > All the best, > Felicity > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
