Co-Working Office For Share?

Through my friend's blog Nota Luminis I got this.

In NYC, a firm started a service of renting out office space by time-share-like memberships. You can join their different types of memberships to have various levels of access to the office space. They even advertise it as a way to work with awesome people, an identity those independent workers seem to have.

I think definitely there will be a strong demand for such spaces in the expectable recent future, for every large city. Eventually, we will have a clear urban class of people who work independently. Some were forced into this and some by choice. So it's impossible for greedy urban real estate developer to skip making provision for this trend and profit.

2007 in Chicago, I have seen "enterprise incubator" developers dividing post-industrial buildings into incubators that can be rented in a scale of as small as a 100 square feet studio. Some one-person businesses start in there. But this is a development in a community zoned solely for industrial land use. Which means a convenient accessibility to those spots that could attract those people of comparatively "new" "creative class" is actually rare. Retail businesses are zoned out of industrial land use. This makes workers there couldn't get a place to get a bite or a coffee within walking distance and also makes such a space unattractive to probably most independent workers.

The first problem is how fast this trend will prevail, which I couldn't dare to estimate.

The second question is whether I'm interested in this? Of course I'm. Past thirty something, it just doesn't matter any more to be called as a greedy developer. If I got some money, I think I would start such a business.

It's just like my friend Lukhnos once said long ago (about another type of business)... "It seems a good idea. If no one does it. I think I would like to do it myself."