Huge congrats to Jerome Chang and the team for this milestone!

NextKey have suddenly announced they will be ceasing operations at the end of the month, and that they’ve let go all their staff (including support teams).

Not sure how many spaces were using them, or how many doors were controlled through their cloud solution, but its a scary thought for operations who have not put in place contingency or fallback plans for their operating stack.

Jerome Chang shares that after 6 years of planning, a new facility with state-of-the-art amenities for small businesses has finally opened as a partnership between Long Beach City College and BLANKSPACES.

Apart from the coworking space, the two-story building will also provide resources and programs from the college, including an accelerator for international-looking local businesses.

I love this public-private-partnership approach to support local entrepreneurship, and hope to see many many others.