Creative Denver

The Density Coworking folks have just opened their doors on a coworking facility in uptown near 17th and Emerson. That's a great corner, of course, with quick access to delicious vegetarian food.

They've got a few cost/use options like

• $25 per day for a drop-in though they also have a free day pass
• $75 a month for a day per week
• $175 a month for 3 days a week
• $300 a month for unlimited days

Seems like a great opportunity.

There's an article in Colorado Biz Mag about coworking.

But something new in workspaces is taking hold around the Front Range, such as new workplace pioneer Mickey Zeppelin’s TAXI development in River North, RiNO, that is; or Andrew Luter’s brainchild the Hive Cooperative; or Jennie Nevin’s Green Spaces, coworking at the other end of RiNO by the Ballpark neighborhood, award winner for its Green Route map and producer of the glitzy Green Route Festival in late August.

Breathless yet?

How about Boulder’s The Candy Shop, home of the Boulder Green Building Guild, Sustainably Built, Origin Graphic Design, Caught in Her Dress, Keira Ritter Design, Zen Ohm, Daedalus Studio, the Automatic Company and more?

Or Fort Collins’ Cohere, Colorado Springs’ Enclave, or ID345 in Denver, or YesPleaseMore Denver Pavilions where entrepreneurs Brian Corrigan and Samuel Schimek promise coworking for artists, or the Vault in Louisville, born from the expanding circle of the DaVinci Institute?

The relatively new Bolt Factory in the Santa Fe industrial/art zone at 2nd street has several different creative and technology oriented companies in it. One of those offices belongs to studio pattern, a design firm. They've got a great office space and currently have three desks available for rental.

See the details in the attached flyer - the critical information is that a desk costs $275 per month and includes lots of great amenities.

5280 magazine had a sidebar on coworking facilities in Denver/ Boulder this past month. They highlighted 4 firms:

Denver Coworking at the Hive, Creative Farm, ID345 Space

The Hive Cooperative - at $199 per month located at 2401 15th street in Denver.

The Creative Farm - between $300 and $700 per month, located at 4900 W. 29th Ave.

ID345 SPACE - between $250 and $750 per month is located in North Downtown at 2936 Larimeter Street.

Coworking in Boulder - Carbon Space Co-Op

Create Denver in combination with Tamarac Square is running an open house on June 11th from 5PM to 7PM.

Please join us for an open house to learn about exciting creative space opportunities at Tamarac Square and the Create Denver initiative including the new Creative Space Agent Web Site!

Free parking is available (because Tamarac Square is a largely failed suburban mall that is trying to find a new purpose). It could actually work quite well as a "creative" office space, especially with the Whole Foods and light rail stops nearby.

There is a Create Denver Expo coming up on March 21.

Looks like it will be pretty valuable. The event will have a variety of vendors and workshops available. It is located in the Wellington Webb building in downtown Denver.

A List Apart is a group blog run by Happy Cog, a design firm from San Franciso. It also happens to be an amazing resource for people whose job is based on building this crazy thing we call the internets.

What is Coworking?

Freelancers and small businesses are starting to learn the benefits of "Coworking." Coworking is the word that's been invented to describe situations where people get together to rent office space as a group. It's similar to a co-op but based more on the idea that people inside the coworking facility are more likely to be renters for a relatively short term instead of the long term and contractual obligations that are part of the co-op model.

I've written previously about the state of newspapers and physical vs. digital media but there was a development recently that may change some of that industry's situation. Specifically, Google, perhaps the most successful advertising brokerage online has started offering Printads - it's adwords for print media. Google previously experimented with inserting ads into print media and they didn't run forward with it.

This is too good: If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers