Re: [Coworking] Coworking Space in Grand Junction, CO

[Alex Hillman]

welcome, Kevin! Having spent time with Craig at CreativeDensity should serve you well :)

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On Monday, August 20, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Kevin Masten wrote:

Hi everyone!

This is my first post so I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Kevin and I've been a coworker at Creative Density in Denver, CO since it opened last year. I started as a one-day-a-week member and am now full-time. I've found the entire experience immensely rewarding. 

I'm now considering relocationg to Grand Junction, CO. I've been here for two weeks and have just started exploring the idea of starting a coworking space. There isn't a space here and I'm really missing it. I've met with the local business incubator and it sounds like several people/organizations (including the incubator) have explored the idea. I thought I would post here and see if there are others considering the same thing in Grand Junction. 

I've built a "quick-and-dirty" website to use as a tool to educate the community about coworking as well as to gauge interest: grandjunctioncoworking.com. I'm open to feedback and would love to talk to other folks from GJ who are interested in the idea. 

Thanks!

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[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

Welcome to the group Kevin. I'm sure we'll be talking in person/skype soon.

Craig

Creative Density

Denver, CO

[Jeannine]

Hi, Kevin,

Grand Junction has about 50K people with another 100 K in the surrounding unincorporated area and adjoining small towns.  The main industries (since Black Sunday, when Exxon went away).  The major industries are health care, tourism, agriculture, and gas & oil.  It has also recently become popular with the private jet crowd, associated with ski resorts and so forth.  It's a very western, very boom and bust kind of place. 

Denver on the other hand has upwards of a half a million people, surging in the direction of three quarters of a million, and has an important economic driver in telecommunications.

In Grand Junction you will be straddling the line between urban and rural coworking.  (Rural coworking doesn't have to be rural; it has to do with the number of inhabitants available to draw from). 

I say these things in order to suggest to you this:  Creative Density is the awesome-est.  But it will be difficult to do the same thing in Grand Junction and make it work.  I think Grand Junction on the face of it looks very promising; but you will want your approach to be a Grand Junction approach and not a Denver approach.

Jeannine