A WorkSpace Idea (for Charlottesville)

We’ve been throwing this idea around for a while and I’ve talked to enough people that have been excited about it, it seemed time to take the idea to a new level: A Blog Post.

WHAT IF…

We leased one of the large empty office spaces on the Downtown Mall and turned it in to a workspace for internet workers, developers, designers, bloggers, writers (etc.) that work alone or in small teams.  It might look something like:

• Fast WiFi
• Large tables where you could work on your laptop
• Couches and comfy chairs for lounging / discussions
• A conference room you could use for meetings with clients
• Coffee, WII, Xbox and other brain stimulants
• Whiteboards for brainstorming and announcements
• Simple rules like “Headphones = Do Not Disturb”
• A community of smart creative web workers

There seems to be a lot of 1 – 4 person companies in Cville that (1) Spend most of their time on a computer (2) Want to be Downtown (3) Are paying too much for office space or work from home and (3) Would benefit from being around other creative people during the day.

We could charge a monthly fee (similar to a gym membership) and you could use it as much or as little as you want.  Would anyone be interested in something like this?  Leave a comment with feedback / suggestions.  If we could get 15-20 people to commit, I think it could be do-able.