In the era of consultants, freelancers and part-timers . . . Very few people have real jobs or offices. Check the glut of cheap new space for the people still holding on to the middle-class dream: Alone Together
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More evidence that the workplaces of the future will mean more people working at home or in satellite offices. Commuting in traffic jams will be a thing of the past. Which is why we don't need streetcar expansion.
ReplyDeleteOr dozens of new office buildings being built with taxpayer dollars.
ReplyDeleteDoes the co-working model reflect the future of work?... as answered by Gerald Smith, the guy whose nutty Westport Middle renovation plan to turn it into "co-working space" and a "maker's studio" is sure to drain the government teat. It's a supposed $23m plan, that seems to neglect a few facts:
ReplyDelete- "Co-working space", "maker's studio", and the like are simply hot-button terms that translate into purely speculative space, whose target occupants are largely transient organizations with few assets and little access to capital
- Westport middle is located in a part of town riddled with crime that attracts little, if any, significant investment. Doubt it, try stopping at the convenience store on the adjacent corner at dusk and see if you make it out alive
- Financial institutions don't lend on these types of projects with these types of givens without huge amounts of government money in the deal. If the project is really anywhere near $23m, at least $15m-$18m will have to come from the taxpayers