Do you have a website with more information? www.coworxdetroit.com just goes to a Facebook page.
And where are you located? --- Patrick Steele http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM, tanya stephens <tanyajsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > > I just wanted to take a few moments to introduce myself. My name is > Tanya Stephens, and I am Founder of CoWorx Detroit: Detroit's first > official coworking community. > > I'm sure most of you have heard about all of the challenges Detroit > has been facing in the media...the crime, despair, high unemployment, > blah..blah..blah! OR you may have heard about the many positive things > taking place in the City, like how we are fast becoming the Creative > epicenter of the universe and how we are revolutionizing the new > American dream! > > Detroit is in a unique position in our City's history, in fact this > Country's history. Times are changing....and the American Dream is not > what it used to be. Nobody knows this more than Detroit! Almost 100 > years ago we changed the game..with the invention of the automobile. > We started the post-industrial revolution! We put America on the > map...and revolutionized how America did business. We became the place > that everyone in this Country migrated to to realize their "American > Dream"...complete with new Ford Model T, dog named spot, and white > picket fence. We set the standard that the rest of the Country would > follow. Thing about being first is that, unfortunately, being the > first to go up...also meant the first to go down!!! > > Fast forward 100 years, and here we're now in a bit of a transitional > phase, trying to decide where we go next?? The American dream has > turned into a nightmare across the Country and we have ALL had to snap > out of it. The dream quickly turned to a hard reality with the Great > Recession, and left everyone scratching their heads. Well, Detroit was > already planning and strategizing. We had already knew what was to > come before everyone else. We had already started making plans for a > new way, a better way, and more sustainable way!! We are a community > of hard working, talented, fiercely driven innovators. Although we > have experienced decades of decline, mass exodus, abandonment and > decay, negative media, and severe disinvestment..it has only motivated > us to become creative...and forced us to have to rethink and redefine > the most strategic way to diversify our economy...while once again > setting the standards that the Country would follow. > > We are now in a rare position where we are one of the few Cities in > the Country that has the rare opportunity to completely reinvent > ourselves and to completely redefine and design a NEW model for a > fully sustainable, 21st Century City. No other City has had this > opportunity to re-invent itself in this way. Just imagine being in > NYC, San Francisco, Toronto or any other super cool City as it was > being settled. Well, that's where we are in Detroit....the next new > Super Cool City....Wait for it!! > > We have become a Hub of Innovation, Design, & Technology around the > World. Creatives, Visionaries, and Entrepreneurs with big ideas, big > dreams, and a bit of passion and vision are all working together to > strategically rebuild our great City. People from all over the World > are relocating here to see what all the hype is about? > > CoWorx Detroit is designed to be the first community and cowork space > for these individuals to come and meet other like-minded > professionals, creatives, and entrepreneurs to share, collaborate, and > build. We have the ability to collectively change the way things are > done. Time to get to work. CoWorx!!! > > Thanks, > > Tanya Stephens > Founder | CoWorx Detroit > tan...@coworxdetroit.com > > -- > 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 > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
