coworking and making - opportunities to bring economic development to empty buildings

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TRANSFORMING EMPTY BUILDINGS INTO ECONOMIC DRIVERS

JUNE 22, 2015

COWORKING & MAKING

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LarsTorres

LOCAL 64GENERATOR

ArtistEducator

Challenges, Competitions and Entrepreneurship

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Coworking is an answer to the question, “How can we help independent entrepreneurs and creatives connect, grow their ventures, and foster startup communities?”

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A makerspace is a shared shop with access to sometimes unusual tools, often with the goals of fostering creativity, learning, and entrepreneurship.

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Both are products of an economy that is generating increasing incentives for creative talent to join the independent workforce.

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POINT ONEKnow the local impact of economic shifts toward and independent workforce.

Who and how large is your potential market?

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78 percent under 40

percent in web design, development44self-employed4:5

percent report increased income36

COWORKING SPACES

percent bike or walk30* 3rd Global Coworking Survey

Begun in mid- late 1990’s

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• Establish presence, increase productivity• Break isolation, foster networks• Increase density of ideas, generate new

insights and value

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF COWORKING?

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Coworking has revitalized my one-woman business. I feel more productive and far less isolated. It's given me a work community--something that, as a freelancer, is not naturally built in to my life.

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* Local 64 Member Survey, November 2012

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MAKER SPACESBegun in early 2000’s

2,000 + makerspaces in US

60,000 sq/ft largest we know of in US

6 + in Vermont online or in the works

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WHAT IS THE VALUE OF MAKERSPACES?

Innovation in tool-making Skills, training, learning Inspired projects New companies, livelihoods

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Generator's Maker in Residence program gave me the opportunity to take my craft from a hobby and transform it into a successful small business.”

* Generator Member Survey, April 2015

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POINT TWOKnow local market ripeness for coworking and makerspaces.

What are local pain points that you can solve directly?

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POINT THREEMake your space irresistable.

What does downtown Springfield offer that can be leveraged in a package?

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Pick My Brain• What do you want to know about

building coworking and makerspaces?

• How does Springfield celebrate creativity and entrepreneurship?

• What brings creatives and young people into town?

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THANK YOU!Lars Hasselblad Torres802-595-0605lhtorres@gmail.com@lhtorres