WorkSpring in Chicago. Steelcase and Turnstone get it.

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Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking

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Jan 10, 2013, 4:19:44 PM1/10/13
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Steelcase, the parent company of Turnstone, is opening up a coworking space for corporations called WorkSpring 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 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

Matthew Arkin

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Jan 10, 2013, 4:30:31 PM1/10/13
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Steelcase makes some really nice furniture, and their designs look awesome.. I would be excited if they started opening up more locations nationwide.

Creative Density

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Carly Johnston

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Jan 23, 2013, 10:35:50 PM1/23/13
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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 at www.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


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Adrienne N <arno...@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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Carly Johnston

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Jan 25, 2013, 6:00:17 PM1/25/13
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Thanks Adrienne! Great to meet you.  

You do have some awesome coworking spots in Austin - what a great city! Currently Workspring is just in Chicago and we have one location with Marriott in Redmond, WA, near Seattle. 

Carly

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Adrienne N <arno...@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
>
> > Visit this forum on the web athttp://discuss.coworking.com

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