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Existing Spaces 

These are the current coworking spots in the Boston metro area:

 

Jump to Cambridge (Betahouse, Cambridge Coworking Center, GeekOffices) or Somerville (Design Annex)

 

Boston

 

WorkBar 

 

Description:  Office space has never been this exciting! WorkBar is a great place to work, meet with clients and meet other like minded professionals.  As the perfect alternative to working from home or out of cafes, we understand your needs and know how to meet them because we know that crammed cafe’s don’t always provide for ideal working conditions and staying home all day with your computer can get pretty boring.  We offer a dynamic coworking environment conveniently located in the heart of the Leather District, steps away from South Station and the MBTA red, green, and orange lines. 

Memberships: Part time and Full time 

Location: 711 Atlantic Ave, Lower Level, Boston, MA 02111 MAP 

Website: Workbarboston.com

• Access to fast & secure WiFi and wired Internet
• Unlimited conference calling
• Unlimited fax
• Color and black & white printing
• Free coffee & snacks
• Access to conference/meeting rooms
• Projector and screens available for presentations
• Lounge and private phone areas
• Spacious workspace
• Kitchen
• Restrooms 

 

Contact: Evona at info@workbarboston.com

 

Tech Superpowers Digital Lounge 

 

Description: The TSP Digital Lounge (Digilounge) is a coworking boutique located on Boston's famous Newbury Street.  We're not as big as WorkBar or BetaHouse, but we're conveniently located and have an emphasis on technology.

Location: 252 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116.  Directions here.  Located closest to Copley, Hynes Convention Center, or Prudential Green Line T-Stops.  Boston metered street parking available.

Details: Coworking desks, couch, Lots of Macs, WiFi, Ethernet jacks (20/6 Internet), Xbox 360, community Twitterboard.  Note that we do not have private meeting areas or conference facilities.

Seats: 4 reservable coworking spots, other casual seating available.

Costs: Options include Pay As You Go for $5 per hour or Memberships starting at $30 per month including 8 hours of reserved hotdesk space (casual coworking using Wifi is unlimited). Full month rental of a hotdesk runs around $300 per month, but our facility is best for people looking for hours/days of coworking, not weeks.

Contact: digilounge@techsuperpowers.com or 617-267-9716.  More information available at http://www.techsuperpowers.com/digilounge

 

 

Cambridge

 

BetaHouse 

Description: An informal, collaborative environment for entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives. BetaHouse is as much about making connections, sharing ideas and building community as it is about providing affordable, flexible work space, and we prefer people who share these values. We also regularly host talks, meetups, hackfests, Jellies, group lunches and the occasional party. Boston's first coworking space, BetaHouse was started in April 2007 by Jon Pierce, Greg Gibson and a handful of other founding residents, including Brian Del Vecchio, who helps manage the space.

Location: Magazine Street, Central Square, two short blocks from the T. 

Details: Rent includes wifi internet, laser printer/scanner/copier, projector, conference room, white boards, coffee (we have a nice espresso machine), and occasional snacks and drinks (including beer). There's also a kitchen and shower. There's no parking, but there is a garage on Green Street and metered parking nearby, in addition to the subway. It's a mostly open loft space with high ceilings on the top floor and lots of natural light. We often play music over AirTunes upstairs, while the room downstairs is generally quieter.

Capacity: 15+ desks 

Cost: Currently, there are two options: $375/month for a full-time spot with a dedicated desk or $225/month for a part-time spot (up to three days a week). Part-timers use whatever shared desks are available. Rent is month to month, with one month's notice before moving out.

Contact: Jon Pierce (jon at betahouse dot org), Brian Del Vecchio (bdv at betahouse dot org), BetaHouse (info at betahouse dot org)

 

Cambridge Coworking Center ("C3")

 

Description: Ours is a free-flowing environment designed to meet the needs of people launching new initiatives. It provides a variety of shared working areas including large square tables that can accommodate two entrepreneurs to a side, a bank of desks along the window-line, a high-bar seating area, a soft-seating area, and two private conference rooms. A light beverage service includes Poland Springs water and Keurig coffee in a variety of flavors.  C3 is a co-working focused off-shoot of the Cambridge Innovation Center, founded in 1999.  Cambridge Innovation Center is the largest facility in the US dedicated to housing startup companies.  Amongst the planned users of the space during its launch summer (2009), C3 will house both the summer entrepreneurship fellowship program of Harvard Business School, and the winners of the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition.

Location: One Broadway, Kendall Square, about 100 feet from the Red Line MBTA T station. 

Details: Rent includes enterprise-class wifi (using Ruckus wireless access points), printer/scanner/copier, two conference room, white boards, coffee (we have a Keurig machine), and spring water.  There is a paid parking garage in the building, in addition to the subway.  We are in a light-filled area on the 10th floor of One Broadway, overlooking the MIT campus.  

Capacity: 40+ seats plus couch areas.  Members are given a personal cubby to store their things when they are not there.

Cost: $250/person/month. Rent is month to month, with 30 days' notice before moving out.

Contact: Tim Rowe and friends.  Contact information at www.cambridgecoworking.com.

 

GeekOffices

 

Geek Offices is a coworking space offering all the amenities of a professional office, with none of the overhead.  We have two conference rooms, a lounge, lots of whiteboards, several semi-private work areas and all the equipment to help you function at your peak.  More than the facility, you are in the heart of Cambridge, and will be rubbing elbows with some of the best and brightest entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals and service providers in the business.

 

 

GeekOffices offer:

* Spacious desks with comfortable chairs

* High speed Wi-Fi 

* Mailing address for your business

* Conference Rooms, including a very nice boardroom

* Elegant furniture and plenty of white boards!

* Casual lounge areas on multiple floors

* Air conditioning

* Printing, scanning, faxing

* Parking available

* 24 hour access available

* Showers

 

Cambridge Office

Location: Suite One, 1035 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02141

Space: 25 Cubicles up and ready to go.

Rates: "Geek Premium", dedicated workspace from $400/mo.

get a "Geek Pass" for $100 for 25 hours of membership on your schedule

 

Contact:  john@geekoffices.com

 

Jelly

Description: Casual coworking, twice a month

Location: Also at BetaHouse

Details: See the Jelly in Boston wiki page for more details + to sign up!

Capacity: 5 people

Cost: Totally free

 

 

Somerville - CoworkingSomerville

 

Design Annex

Description: Professional work, community, and meeting space for designers of every stripe (architects, product designers, graphic and web designers, etc) with shared desks, conference room for 8, ventilated studio, equipment (color printer/copier/scanner, general supplies), lounge with resource library, kitchenette, high-speed wifi. Reservation of the conference room comes with 2 private parking spaces.  Design Annex is an initiative of the non-profit community group Union Square Main Streets.

Location: Union Square, Somerville in a professional building. 1 1/2 miles from Harvard, Central and Porter Squares. On 5 bus lines and with metered lot adjacent to the building.

Details: Membership includes wifi internet, printer/scanner/copier, projector, conference room, white boards and pin-up area, coffee and occasional snacks.  Members gather for weekly brown bag lunch and month social events.  Upper tier of membership includes locker and Business Zip Car Membership. (Zip Cars located behind the building.) Building is handicapped accessible.

Capacity: 8 workstations with extra monitors for your laptop,  plus skylit loft with lounge, conference room, kitchenette table and model studio.  

Cost: $165 to $375. All members currently have 24 hour/7 day week access. Minimum 3 month membership then month to month with 30 days notice to terminate.

Contact: Mimi Graney. info at dannex.org --  www.dannex.org. Follow us on Twitter.

 

 

 

Spaces in progress 

 

Jamaica Plain Design Coworking Space

Description: 2-3 desks would be available for interested full-timers in tech, design, creative fields. Definitely wanting a creative/innovative/progressive vibe.

Location: Jamaica Plain near Stonybrook T. The potential space is in the Brewery Complex, which is home to some awesome nonprofits, a gym, and Ula Cafe. 

Details: See this flyer.

Capacity: 4-6 people

Cost: $200-$350/desk -- details need to be worked out. 

 

South End Coworking Space

Description: 15 desks in shared office suite and 2 offices suitable for 2-3 people in old brick and beam building with lots of start up and small companies. 

Location:  SOWA (South of Washington Street) between Harrison Avenue and Albany Streets, walking distance from the Silver Line, Broadway (red line) and New England Medical (orange line) T stops.  Parking available for $15/day.

Details:  Still being worked out, but anticipated to include wifi access with potential access to shared printer/copier/scanner, coffee, and kitchenette.  Access to two small (4 person) conference rooms and one large (10-15 person) conference room on a space available basis for extra charge.

Capacity:  15-20 people

Cost:  Space is designed for 'day users' with other options in the building for folks wanting to rent on a monthly basis.  $35/day or $300 for a 10 day pass.  Considering half day passes for $20 if demand warrants.

More Info?  Contact southendworklounge@gmail.com  

 

 

Interested Parties

 

• Gena Peditto 
• Satish Mummadi ( Great Idea: I'm Working on some wicked cool mashups, need some geek buddies to hang around)
• GregorRothfuss 
• Yoav Shapira 
• Taylor Hayward (looking for a space in Cambridge about $300-$500 per month. Don't need much space.  posted: Oct 20 2008)
• Dharmesh Shah 
• Luis Villa (when I'm next in a job that facilitates this) 
• Shimon Rura 
• MosheWeitzman 
• Sj 
• Sooz 
• Jimmi Heiserman Web and Game freelancer
• Alex Nauda (job flexibility permitting) 
• Mike Burns 
• David Kelleher (this is an ideal location and situation for my freelance work) 
• Ben Saren (Very interested in learning more) 
• Gina Kamentsky (great idea for location) 
• Jon Pierce, Cofounder of BetaHouse (see above) 
• Dave Evans: local, like the space 
• Visual Pinball Tables 
• Jay Neely (Would be interested in making use of the space) 
• Yair Marcow (excited to explore whether it fits with my growing new venture) 
• Peter Davis of Zealot.com (looking for community as much as a place to sit and good coffee) 
• James Johnson of insurance forum We are close by and interested in coworking 
• Will Scarbrough (when I'm a freelancer again - probably 2008) Also, what about phone calls, will that be OK in the space? 
• Jeff Takle (maybe a monthly $29 fee, includes wireless & coffee... I like it.) 
• Jeremy Gross Offer second LCD screens to rent for doublescreening. Use VOIP phones.\
• MJR - In need of office space, commute in via North Station. 
• Alex Sherman nice- ideal if accessible evening+weekends for when i 9-5 
• Greg Gibson, Cofounder of BetaHouse (see above) 
• Dan Pickett, local - interested in local coworking facilities 
• Agaric Design Collective - we're a bit more West, but we're very interested. 
• Nikita Bernstein 
• Bryan Clark local - recently turned work from homer, interested in coworking facilities 
• Dave Adams - Developer in Medford looking to share workspace in Cambridge / Somerville / Medford / Arlington 
• Steve Holt - are freelance writers allowed in these things? =) as mentioned several times above, would love space, good coffee, community. 
• Kyle Bradshaw - interested in coworking with fellow web developers located in Brighton. 
• Ben Mauer - interested in coworking space with web developers/creatives in Jamaica Plain.
• Bernadette Smith - interested in coworking space in Jamaica Plain, up to $350/month
• gwanucha--interested in coworking space in Jamaica Plain, freelance writer, $200/month
• Cayte - looking for other freelancers who want to get together a few days a week to work.

 

 

Misc. Notes

 

 

Gregor's old Qingping idea

 

 

Idea: providing monitors for rent

 

My friend John Sequeira pointed out that he just got a sweet dual monitor setup, which made working on just the laptop less attractive to him ;)

 

|-I've been telling plenty of people within the past few weeks that dual monitors offer huge productivity boosts[NY Times link, I suggest BugMeNot]. Most laptops have video cards that support dual monitors, so if nothing else, it's possible that a coworking facility could offer the best of both worlds by providing monitors to plug into. CRT monitors can usually be cheaply acquired, would it be difficult to build housing for them that matches the decor of the rest of the coffeehouse to hold them?

 

Hardware resellers for TigerDirect can usually score 17" or 19" flat screen monitors for just over $100 each -- an investment in 10-20 would add a substantial boost in productivity and "cool factor" for a small up front investment that can be depreciated out. You could also just offer those monitors as a Premium membership perk or something to recoup cost and differentiate levels of support.