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🎉 Coworking celebrations
🎂 Caddo turns 16! #
Tim Slaughter shares that Caddo Office Reimagined is turning 16 years old this month (on 8/25 officially). He also shares some "fun" memories over the years, including making a whopping $1000 in 2009.
👉 Read this.
✊ Coworking impact
💭 Some thoughts on 20 years of… us. #
Ashley Proctor from Creative Blueprint (and a whole bunch of other important coworking things, like Coworking Canada) penned her superb reflections on what’s changed – and what should never – on the 20th celebration of International Coworking Day.
"We measure the impact of the coworking movement by the strength and the depth of the waves we are making." Yes!
👉 Read this.
👶 It’s not always (just) about the business model… #
Daniella Briseno Cornue shares how she never set out to start a business, reflecting on what went into building Le Village a coworking space with childcare support.
👉 Read this.
📰 Coworking news & views.
📝 Hospitality-led workplace design principles #
HUB Australia COO, John Preece emphasizes the importance of hospitality design in corporate spaces, comparing HQ Venues to traditional offices. He highlights the need for social interaction and community building, which often requires additional operational support.
To succeed in a digital and distributed work environment, companies need to rethink their work practices and HR policies, focusing on flexibility and employee experience. This means creating inviting HQ venues that reflect company culture and compete with home and other gathering spaces, rather than just mimicking traditional offices.
👉 Read this.
🗞️ On becoming an essential part of office real estate #
Jason Anderson, President of Vast Coworking Group, shares his perspective on the institutional investment in coworking and why coworking is becoming an essential part of office real estate.
In summary, he points towards governments embracing flex space, franchising as a growth engine, and the surge in enterprise and mid-market demand. He also addresses some the challenges coworking space may face as investment in the sector increases. Always good seeing coworking promoted outside of our echo chamber and in traditional media outlets.
👉 Read this.
💰 Accor raises €4.6B selling hotels, goes asset-light #
French hospitality giant Accor executed a counterintuitive strategy when CEO Sébastien Bazin sold 57.8% of AccorInvest, the company’s real estate arm, to a consortium including PIF, GIC, Crédit Agricole Assurances, and Colony NorthStar in 2018, raising €4.6B in cash. Bazin shifted Accor from the traditional asset-heavy hotel ownership model to an asset-light operator model, reinvesting proceeds into brand acquisitions like Mövenpick (~$567M) and technology platforms.
The strategy separated hotel operations from real estate ownership, enabling accelerated growth and lighter balance sheets while Accor now operates 5000 hotels across 110 countries. The move parallels current diverging strategies in flexible workspace regarding asset-light management models versus traditional real estate ownership strategies.
👉 Read this.
✍️ An Open Letter: Don’t Fumble this Moment #
Cat Johnson is concerned that the word “coworking” is being misused. The prefix “co” means with, together, or jointly. But there are a lot of spaces focused more on the space and the hospitality than on the co.
"But the co is what changed the game."
👉 Read this.
🏦 Are you collecting security deposits? #
The Deskworks team put together a good guide around why some coworking spaces do, and some do not, collect security deposits. Often times, some operators collect deposits for specific kinds of bookings and products. The piece also offers some alternatives for those who want some cover, but don’t want to slow down their sales processes.
👉 Read this.
🪙 Should you charge set-up fees on VOs? #
Sofia Stolberg from PilotoMail says no! She goes on to say that "set-up fees don’t raise your average ticket – they cost you clients".
Do you charge set-up fees on your virtual office memberships? Why or why not?
👉 Read this.
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💻 Coworking technology.
🎃 Can AI help create events, for humans? #
We are all trying to do more with less, and that is where AI shines. DeShawn Brown of Coworks and David Walker of Coworking Consulting put ChatGPT to the test in real time.
And the results were pretty great. But only with input and guidance.
👉 Read this.
🤖 Proximity teases new AI booking functionality #
Proximity COO Mike Flanagan shared a preview of what’s to come from their new AI Concierge feature called "Prox".
Rather than searching through pages of search results and having to manually set search filters, Proximity’s new functionality will power an assistant that can search and book the space you are looking for just by talking to it.
👉 Read this.
🚚 Move over LLMs, your AI Agent’s new BFF has arrived… #
NVIDIA Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology have put out a paper on a shift from Large Language Models (LLMs) to Small Language Models (SLMs), and what it could mean for agentic processes, workforces and costs.
So what are they? These language models can run on your own servers, and eventually on your own machines, bringing what powers modern AI systems out of data centers and into your laptop, coworking space and office buildings. Watch this space.
👉 Read this.
🔒 Security co launches visitor management tool #
Brivo announced a strategic partnership with Envoy to launch "Brivo Visitor Management powered by Envoy", integrating the former’s workplace platform into the latter’s Security Suite.
The solution combines visitor management with physical security, access control, video intelligence, and intrusion detection in a unified platform that scales from single offices to Fortune 500 enterprises.
👉 Read this.
🧑🏽💻 What makes a coworking website high performing? #
Spacebring conducted an audit of over 200 coworking and flexible workspace websites from around the world to identify conversion optimization patterns.
The analysis found that high-performing sites feature clear value propositions, dual CTAs above the fold for sign-ups and tours, well-defined product categories including offices and meeting rooms, instant booking capabilities for rooms and desks, detailed location pages with real-time availability, and dedicated enterprise sections.
The audit identified common revenue-limiting mistakes including hiding meeting rooms and day passes behind inquiry forms instead of enabling instant booking, lacking detailed corporate-focused pages, insufficient location page content without floor plans or persistent CTAs, and poor mobile experiences. Spacebring converted these findings into a blog post and created a one-page coworking website template for operators to use with designers.
👉 Read this.
📈 Coworking data.
🌱 India sees green boom #
Shyam Sundar Nagarajan from GoFloaters shares that India’s office market is seeing a subtle green boom, noting that over 530M sqft is now Green-certified (61% of all top-tier office space).
They also share that certified offices in the region are also able to command 24% higher rent, have a lower vacancy rates.
👉 Read this.
🤝 Coworking market moves.
🤸 On-demand micro-gyms hitting their stride #
Ben Alderton shares a rare status update from Solo60, which is expected to have 30 bookable mini-gyms by EOY.
Why is this in a coworking newsletter? Because these bookable wellness spaces for content creators, instructors, therapists, or private group workouts is literally ‘coworking for wellness’.
👉 Read this.
🏢 Switchyards slides into Houston #
Michael Tavani shares that Switchyards will open its first Houston location in September, at the former Buffalo Exchange space on the border of Montrose, River Oaks, and Upper Kirby. This marks their 30th existing location, having already opening in expansion cities including Austin, Denver, Kansas City, and Nashville, with a Dallas location opening at the end of August.
Unlike WeWork’s focus on companies, Switchyards targets individual remote workers with ~$100 monthly memberships offering 24/7 access, fast wifi, and quality coffee and tea. Memberships are capped due to the fact that the last 14 club openings sold out on day one.
👉 Read this.
🎨 Firm introduces new brand, logo and web experience #
Dan Zakai unveiled a new chapter for Mindspace, which includes a refreshed brand, new logo, and a completely redesigned website.
👉 Read this.
🇬🇧 Firm opens new hub on London Bridge #
Charlie Gallienne-Schmidt shares that Sandbox Workspace have just opened their 9th location in Colechurch House, on London Bridge.
This location features retro 70s vibes and offers desks starting at £300/month.
👉 Read this.
🇵🇱 The Shire hits nine locations with Warsaw and Kraków openings #
Polish coworking operator The Shire opened a new Warsaw location in Zebra Tower and will launch a Kraków site in September 2025 in Unity Tower, bringing the company to nine total Polish locations.
Union Investment partnered with The Shire as part of its strategy to integrate flexible office providers into landmark properties, while The Shire continues developing additional locations targeting startups, SMEs, and corporate clients seeking hybrid workspace solutions, with Managing Partner Rafał Pisklewicz scheduled to speak at Coworking Europe 2025 in Berlin.
👉 Read this.
🏗️ Another office to shared warehouse conversion project #
Portal Warehousing announced the recent closing of 3200 Gateway Centre Blvd in the Raleigh-Durham MSA. The property will undergo conversion from office to warehouse space, involving primarily interior demolition and the addition of loading docks.
Once operational (Spring 2026), Portal Raleigh will house over 70 different businesses, while Portal continues actively seeking new expansion opportunities.
👉 Read this.
🇮🇳 Venture X enters India market #
Global coworking franchise brand Venture X launched its Indian operations with two premium locations in Gurgaon, Delhi, offering approximately 1,200 seats across 6,000 sqm through local master franchise partners.
Venture X currently operates more than 100 locations across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Costa Rica, Portugal, and UAE, with European presence including two locations in Spain and one in Portugal.
👉 Read this.
🇬🇧 BE Offices inks deal in The White Chapel Building #
BE Offices have announced their partnership with Derwent London, the UK’s largest London office-focused real estate investment trust (REIT), to take the part ground and 1st floors in the building.
👉 Read this.
🇬🇧 Runway East opens Borough Market at 53% occupancy #
Runway East has launched a new 12k sqft stand-alone workspace at 150 Borough High Street, opening with 53% occupancy. This makes the firm the largest flexible workspace operator in London Bridge, and also brings their total to 13 locations across the UK. This is their second collaboration with landlords Peer Group and follows the success of their Wardour Street managed office, which reached full capacity within nine months.
Founder Natasha Guerra highlights the company’s strong presence in London Bridge, its growing landlord partnerships, and rising demand from global corporations for flexible workspace.
👉 Read this.
🤝 Blush Cowork joins The Coven #
The Coven announced its expansion to Cary, NC with the absorption of Blush Cowork, marking the company’s eighth location and rebranding the location as The Coven Cary. Founding owner Alison Campbell Rogers, a Cary local and UNC graduate, will continue operating the space which will host a Grand Re-Opening this fall following the transition from Blush Cowork. Founding Annual Memberships and Day Passes are available immediately for the North Carolina location.
The acquisition represents The Coven’s continued expansion strategy, bringing Rogers’ existing community relationships and coworking experience into The Coven’s network of women-focused workspace locations.
👉 Read this.
🌊 BLANKSPACES reopens in Santa Monica #
Jerome Chang announced that BLANKSPACES‘ opening of a new Santa Monica Downtown location, after their previous location closed last summer following nearly 14 years of operation. The new space is located at the southwest corner of Colorado Ave and 10th Ave in the Silicon Beach area, featuring private offices and coworking facilities with a 30-foot shell roof design. The location is positioned right within Santa Monica’s tech ecosystem, targeting businesses seeking opportunities in the area where shopping, dining, and nature converge.
👉 Read this.
📡 Tech Square ATL launches Studio B coworking space #
Tech Square ATL announced the upcoming opening of Studio B. a coworking space located on the top floor of the historic Biltmore building in the heart of Tech Square, Atlanta. The space targets strategic landing parties, tech founders, and their service providers, offering coworking areas, high-speed internet, and inclusion in the Tech Square ATL network within the larger 1M+ square feet Tech Square innovation ecosystem.
The historic Biltmore building previously housed Atlanta’s WSB radio station, and Studio B. aims to serve as an entry point for disruptors seeking to collaborate within Atlanta’s growing tech community.
👉 Read this.
🇬🇧 Patch opens flagship coworking space in Gloucester #
Patch has announced plans to open a flagship coworking location in Gloucester this autumn, targeting Gloucestershire’s growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs, creatives, and changemakers. The space will be located at The Forum, a new digital and tech innovation neighborhood near Kings Square and within walking distance of Gloucester Quays and the train station.
The Gloucester location represents Patch’s expansion into the UK market with a focus on supporting regional business ecosystems.
👉 Read this.
☀️ TailoredSpace opens third San Diego location #
TailoredSpace has opened a new 14,412 square foot coworking space in Del Mar, marking its third location in the greater San Diego market alongside existing sites in Carlsbad and Kearny Mesa. The company has additional locations under construction in Oceanside and Solana Beach, with co-founder Drew Sanden citing strong demand, tours, and memberships driving rapid regional growth.
The expansion reflects TailoredSpace’s focus on securing premium buildings in suburban markets to serve local business owners and entrepreneurs seeking alternatives to home offices.
👉 Read this.
🎙 Coworking conversations.
Brave CEO, Caleb Parker, and ReturnSuite Cofounder, Sam Gamble, chat with Techspace’s CEO, Jonathan Bevan about how their niche brand differentiation has created a competitive moat, drives organic community, and attracted institutional investors.
Jenny Poon, founder of CO+HOOTS joined Spacebring‘s The Flex Factor podcast on how to partner with governments to grow your business, and how she uses AI and technology to scale her coworking space brand.
Giovanni Palavacini and Jamie Russo sit down with Mike Kloppenburg, VP at Avison Young and longtime coworking insider, to pull back the curtain on what’s really happening in the brokerage world, and what it means for flex operators on the Flex Uncensored podcast.
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