Coworking space open on Center Street
Healdsburg’s first coworking space, CraftWork, opened earlier this month.
Coworking is a workspace model that takes the form of a shared office space between people, businesses and the like. Spaces like CraftWork, or the WeWork chain, charge monthly (or daily) fees for people who want to rent out desk space, office space or meeting rooms.
According to CraftWork founder Jim Heid, the concept of coworking launched in 2007 and grew from 14 coworking spaces in 2007 to around 5,000 now.
Heid got the idea to start a coworking space while he was travelling as part of his work for the Urban Land Institute’s Small Scale Developers Forum.
“We’ve been to 16 cities in seven years and one of the common themes everywhere we went was this phenomenon of coworking,” he said. “Everyone knows ‘WeWork,’ but we saw a lot of these more boutique, smaller, community-based things.”
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Article and photo by Zoë Strickland, Staff Writer