This week, we explore the rise of LWP developments, pods as flags, leadership, agreement tips, a buncha AI releases, IWG's German play, and more.

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🎉 Coworking celebrations

🎂 FLOC Membership officially turns ONE! #

Built by and for the next generation of coworking leaders, Future Leaders of Coworking (FLOC) is a growing community of early- to mid-career professionals driving professional development and momentum.

In their first year of memberships: 25 digital events, 5 meetups, 17 advisory leaders recruited, and countless moments of impact – all peer-led and shaped by FLOC members.

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🎉 Coworking impact

🇺🇸 Team reviving 120-year old NJ building into tech hub #

Gabe Einhorn shares how when everyone told him to "just get a WeWork", he decided to instead revive an 120-year old building in Passaic, NJ.

Love the energy, and we’re cheering you on. See you the next Coworking Leaders’ Coffee Gabe?

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📰 Coworking news & views.

🤔 How to pick the right conference roundtable #

Liz Elam shares how to choose the right GCUC roundtable sessions, and why it matters more than you may think.

With just two sessions of 10 roundtables and seats limited at 20ish per table its a good idea to have a look over which session you or your teammates should attend. There’s sessions on retention, community, revenue, growth, enterprise demand, ops, sales and data-planning.

Not got a ticket yet? Use GCUCTWIC to get a last min discount.

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🏓 KMC turned rooftop into neon-lit pickleball court #

Therese Reyes-Hilario shares some snaps from a recent activation where KMC turned the rooftop at their Picadilly Sky Deck location into an immersive, memorable experience.

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🚩 Are pods actually a sign of poor office planning? #

Scott Hartkopf argues that the rising popularity of office pods "may be the clearest sign that office planning got something wrong".

While the post mostly addresses pods in company’s offices, it’s something that may be worth noting when it comes to offering managed suites or even coworking design.

👉 Read this.

😎 Turning coworking members into leaders #

Your coworking space is the perfect canvas to experiment with growing leaders, because your space is full of leadership potential.

Some of this leadership potential is known, but most of it is likely behind laptops, office doors, and members who are quietly doing remarkable things.

👉 Read this.

📑 The 1st management agreement thing you should negotiate #

The most important part of a management agreement is the exit, and most building owners don’t figure that out until they’re stuck. Mike Kriel breaks down the four exit rights every landlord needs before signing a management agreement.

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🫂 Some notes on scaling coworking service… #

"Most coworking spaces don’t have a service problem, they have a staff dependency problem" says Emily Nguyen at Nexudus.

👉 Read this.

😯 Pretty cool way to show off adaptable workstations #

Wesley Edmonds reshared a post in which OFS introduced their new ultra-extendable Kaleid workstations.

So why am I sharing a ‘furniture promo’? Well.. watch the video, it’s both gorgeous, interesting and quite inspiring as to how flex space with these units could fold out.

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💻 Coworking technology.

💳 If ChatGPT becomes Amazon… what happens to everything else? #

Eyal Lasker from Flexspace AI explores the hypothesis of what Agentic Commerce could mean for coworking spaces as the traditional search-compare-decide-buy flow folds into one single interaction.

Your website matters less. Your data structure matters more.

👉 Read this.

🎨 Graphic design tools for coworking spaces #

Design touches every part of your coworking space, from your Instagram presence to your event flyers to the look and feel of your brand. Picking the right tool shouldn’t take longer than actually designing something. This 5-minute read from Cobot, breaks down five options side by side so you can find your design tool fit, fast.

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🦿 How AI is doing more of the legwork for apartment seeking #

Colin Behring, CEO at Behring Capital, explores how the next step for finding apartments (after manual tab toggling) is agentic.

He explores how agents, alongside a SOUL file, long-term memory, and a set of knowledge files could find better results than even the best search-engine warriors. As always, keep an eye on multifamily tech (and how tech is being sidestepped) in the Bar Area for some signals as to what may be coming to coworking.

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🦾 Platform adds AI teammate capability #

Spacebring have introduced Lem, an AI teammate designed to handle a coworking space’s most repetitive management tasks 24/7.

From the release and videos, it seems that Lem can help both members and operating teams by providing a singular point of contact for things like how-tos, rules, support questions, invoicing recaps, event promotion, and post drafting.

👉 Read this.

⚙️ Are we nearing the ‘compounding value’ stage of tech? #

Lukas Balik from Spaceflow shares how the next phase of proptech (or the tech you use to run properties) will not just be about better integrations, but making buildings easier to use, and manage.

"By 2030, we don’t think the best platforms will be defined solely by how many integrations they have, but by how the experience actually feels. Tenants won’t think about access systems, booking tools, or communication platforms. They’ll just expect things to work seamlessly."

👉 Read this.

🚶 Update makes meeting rooms even more self-service #

In the latest version of NexBoard by Nexudus, members can book, pay, check in, extend or end a booking early right at the (meeting room) door.

👉 Read this.

💵 Platform goes flat-per-location pricing #

Nicholas McMillen notes that Deskie has swapped from pricing tiers to a flat $99 p/month p/location.

The blog post does note that this plan includes unlimited member and all the features, and mentions a small space plan (<15 members) at $49/month. Another interesting twist? An up-to-$2,500 contract buyout program.

👉 Read this.

🤖 Platform teases new lead-handling agent #

Momchil Blaskov and OfficeRnD tease that an AI Agent for 24/7 lead responses is coming to their platform soon.

👉 Read this.

📈 Coworking data.

🤯 How many US Live-Work-Play developments were built? #

CoworkingCafe’s latest analysis explores how live-work-play (LWP) developments have expanded across the US over the past decade. They tracked 542 developments completed between 2016 and 2025, along with 94 more projects in the 2026-2029 pipeline, to see how this building model is evolving nationally and across major cities.

The 542 LWP developments spanned 129.45M sqft. 2025 alone saw 67 completed projects. Residential remains the defining feature of these projects, averaging 62% of the sqftage nationally, compared to office (27%) and retail (11%).

The number of coworking spaces located within these developments in the top 10 cities for LWP buildings, rose from 35 in 2022 to 56 in 2026 – a 60% increase – highlighting the growing connection between flexible work and mixed-use environments.

With 119 developments, New York City has the largest LWP footprint in the country, well ahead of other major markets. The city also has 17 coworking spaces within these properties, reinforcing its position as both a mixed-use and flex office leader.

Several smaller markets stand out for coworking integration. San Francisco, for example, has just 7 developments, but six include coworking, giving it one of the highest coworking concentrations in the study. Meanwhile, cities such as Rochester and Philadelphia stand out for relatively large office footprints in their live-work-play projects, but no coworking presence so far.

👉 Read this.

🇩🇪 A deeper look at IWG’s 260k sqm acquisition #

Fabrizio Lauria breaks down IWG‘s 50-location acquisition of Design Offices in Germany.

👉 Read this.

🤝 Coworking market moves.

🇨🇦 The Village Hive expands midtown Toronto location #

Charlotte Kirby shares that The Village Hive are expanding to add more therapy, wellness and group therapy spaces to their offering.

👉 Read this.

🇨🇦 iPostal1 expands into Canadian market #

iPostal1 Workspace shares that not only are they expanding into Canada, but operators in the country will also get some of iPostal1’s newest features before they roll out to elsewhere.

Why Canada? The industry there is set to triple to over 2,600 locations by 2030.

👉 Read this.

🇺🇸 After 8 years brand closes hub, but opens 2 more #

Werqwise shares the bittersweet news that after 8 years, their location at 149 in San Fransico is closing.

The location has been home to thousands of members since 2018, but the brand is also starting tours and day passes at their two newest FiDi hubs (465 California and 235 Pine) on April 6th.

👉 Read this.

🇺🇸 Newton, MA gets a Coworking House #

Kristin Hardwick shares that Andrew Fournier is bringing The Coworking House to Newton, MA.

This is the first CoHo expansion into Massachusetts and will be in the Newton Nexus mall.

👉 Read this.

🇦🇺 Network opens THREE locations in one day #

WOTSO announced the opening of three new locations in a single day (I think that’s a global record, but correct me if I’m wrong).

The 3 are, Gregory Hills in southwest Sydney, Tea Tree Plus in northern Adelaide, and South Melbourne.

👉 Read this.

🇬🇧 Brand opens Covent Garden location #

The Runway East in Shaftesbury Avenue in Covent Garden is now officially open – and already almost full.

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🇦🇺 Operator launches second health club #

Angelique Musico shares that The Commons have launched their second health club (this time in South Yarra, Australia) in under six months.

What’s this got to do with coworking? Well, we’re following a trend of gyms opening coworking spaces AND coworking spaces opening health/wellness/gym clubs.

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🎙 Coworking conversations.

Jerome Chang joins Kalika Yap on the EO Wonder podcast to discuss his journey building BLANKSPACES, his vision for collaborative work environments, and shaping the future of coworking communities.

🎧 Listen to this.

Courtney Schwartz from FireWorks Coworking shares how AI isn’t replacing her as a community manager, but making her better at her job with Jamie Russo on the Everything Coworking podcast.

🎧 Listen to this.

Brandon Houston joins Giovanni Palavicini and guest co-host Ginger Dhaliwal on the Flex Uncensored podcast to explore how he, and Collingwood Foundry are completely rethinking coworking metrics.

🎧 Listen to this.

Lee Odess from The Access Control Group hops over from his podcast to the TWIC podcast for an episode all about the changes, mergers and innovations happing in the world of doors, data and millions of dollars.

🎧 Listen to this.

Tashi Dorjee is back with another jam-packed 30-mins of financial magic focussing on how CRE firm leaders assess coworking opportunities.

🎧 Listen to this.

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