I’m the Executive Director of a coworking space in the Chicago suburbs. We’ve been here since 2010.
I realize this thread is older but did a search of the group and wanted to bring up the conversation again.
Through the years, we have discovered that people in the suburbs tend to want private offices or shared private offices more often than just open coworking. “Coworking” is kind of a new concept for some people. In the suburbs, people want to “own” something. They want their own office, their own desk, something they can call their own, rather than just sitting at any open space. In fact only about 30% - 40% of our members are coworkers, while the others are doing a private office or shared private office.
What have some of you fellow suburban spaces experienced?
Thank you,
Michael S. Copeland