Evan Preslopsky, Senior Sales Manager at Venture X and Office Evolution chats with Jamie Russo about his unique path from fitness to coworking sales on the Everything Coworking podcast.

Congrats to the team behind Venture X‘s first location in Portugal! On the heels of blazing hot international growth, the brand just added a location on the Avenida da Liberdade, in the heart of the city of Lisbon. Parabéns!

DFW’s coworking inventory increased by 5% in Q2 2024 – surpassing Manhattan in number of coworking spaces for the first time – and is now the second-leading market in the nation, closely behind Los Angeles.

As part of other data complied and published by Coworking Cafe, the Dallas-Ft. Worth market has knocked NYC out of 2nd place for highest number of flex workspace/coworking spaces with a total count of 271 locations. LA (barely) held onto the #1 spot with 279 locations. NYC still remains #1 in total square feet of flexible workspace at over 11 million – more than double the footprint of DFW location.

Bisnow reports that a driver of this growth is development within DFW’s desirable suburban communities, where coworking operators are bringing the office to the employees versus the other way around. Nadim Ahmed, Venture X franchise owner in Dallas-Fort Worth weighs in.

Evan Preslopsky from Venture X Charlotte shares 5 things he found that other coworking spaces were doing better than they are.

What were they? Increasing meeting room revenue, implementing dynamic pricing, asking for reviews, optimizing SEO and hosting gatherings. I loooove operators sharing when they’re inspired by other operators. Thanks for sharing Evan!

The recent report by CoworkingMag (part of Yardi) highlights key developments and trends among the top 15 coworking brands in the U.S. this year.

The top 15 US brands (by number of locations) are: Regus (972), HQ (204), WeWork, (173) Industrious (145), Spaces (117), Premier Workspaces (86), Office Evolution (79), Workstyle Flexible Spaces (65), Venture X (46), Intelligent Office (43), Expansive (42), LocalWorks (36), COhatch (34), Serendipity Labs (28) and Lucid Private Offices (27).

What’s changed since the last report? Regus (part of IWG) saw a 17% growth since December 2022, keeping first position. HQ climbed to second place with a meteoric 240% growth from May 2022. WeWork dropped 1 place after closing 73 US locations. Lucid Private Offices joined the top 15 with the second largest growth rate of 23%.

Overall, the U.S. coworking market added 1,166 new locations from December 2022 to the beginning of May 2024 – a 20% increase in the span of more than one year. Meanwhile, the top 15 coworking operators grew their inventory by 14% in total – a sum of 252 new locations.