On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Adrienne N <arnorm
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Carly,
> Nice to meet you! What great news! So glad to see Steelcase has a
> more coworking-style place. Wish you guys would open one like this in
> Downtown Austin. We have some great ones here, but could really use
> one like this Downtown.
> Adrienne
> On Jan 23, 9:35 pm, Carly Johnston <carlybjohns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Craig, thank you for the inspiration & wonderful note! Adrienne, thanks
> for
> > prompting my overdue introduction!
> > For the past 3 1/2 years I have had the pleasure of working with the
> > turnstone team to support small business. In fact, I know a few of you
> from
> > coworking forums that we hosted with turnstone in Chicago and turnstone's
> > involvement in GCUC, SxSW and other activities within the coworking
> > community. Looking to spend more time in Chicago and a new adventure, I
> > recently joined the Workspring team.
> > Last week Monday Workspring officially opened our doors to our new
> location
> > in the iconic Inland Steel Building at 30 West Monroe in the heart of
> > Chicago's Loop. Our location at 12 East Ohio in the River North
> > neighborhood, which opened in 2008, remains open and as Adrienne
> mentioned,
> > offers space & services for group sessions and events. With our second
> > location we have doubled the size of our first space and expanded our
> > offerings to include corporate coworking and project space in addition to
> > group sessions and social events. If you would like to preview the
> spaces,
> > you'll find links to a fly through of each location atwww.workspring.com
> .
> > If you are in Chicago, please join us for our Grand Opening Party on
> Thursday,
> > February 7th from 5:30-8:00pm,
> http://workspring-intheloop.eventbrite.com/.
> > Carly
> > *workspring | 312 298 9330*
> > *ca...@workspring.com*
> > *www.workspring.com*
> > t: @carly_johnston <https://twitter.com/Carly_Johnston>
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Adrienne N <arnorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Workspring has been open in Chicago for many years now. I visited it
> > > last year and my understanding is that it's not a coworking space, but
> > > a business meeting center. Yes, he interior is beautiful, but the
> > > isolated meeting rooms for groups to rent don't really facilitate
> > > coworking, but off-site group meeting space.
> > > Did you see information that they were opening a 2nd location with a
> > > different design to facilitate more of a coworking experience?
> > > Adrienne
> > > On Jan 10, 3:19 pm, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking
> > > <baut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Steelcase, the parent company of Turnstone, is opening up a coworking
> > > space
> > > > for corporations called WorkSpring <http://www.worksping.com> in a
> large
> > > > high-rise in Chicago next month. They are taking over a floor and
> making
> > > it
> > > > a beautiful and high quality coworking space for outsiders and
> people in
> > > > the building, whom get a discount. Now I'm often very weary when
> > > > corporations open up a coworking space because it might lack the
> culture
> > > > that makes a lot of us - well us -- but Steelcase is different. They
> > > > studying culture and space design with a huge R&D budget and write
> > > amazing
> > > > papers about it.
> > > > WorkSpring <http://www.workspring.com> is taking what coworking is
> doing
> > > > and bringing it into the corporate world where the needs are slightly
> > > > different because they already have a team and group of people that
> break
> > > > the isolation. They are more into provide a flexible workspace, but
> also
> > > > designing the space for casual interactions between people from
> different
> > > > corporations. I'm really interested to see if they host casual and
> > > > education events that a lot of us put on for our freelancer and
> mobile
> > > > workers that want some more social interactions. If they do it right
> > > then I
> > > > think they will.
> > > > I'm excited to see where this goes and I'm already reaching out to
> many
> > > of
> > > > the people there to dig deeper into their vision.
> > > > Craig
> > > > Denver, CO
> > > > Creative Density
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