Greenwood Collective

It was an amazing weekend despite the crazy weather.  On Friday, Caroline and I went to the Greenwood Art Walk starting at The Greenwood Collective.  GC is a beautiful space and we were both very impressed.  I got to talk with Brett Schwagger, about the new expansion into the basement and how the year has been going (they opened the same time we did).    I am very excited by what they have going on over there and I will be keeping a keen eye on their event calendar.  

Saturday Arcania Wellness treated the nomads to a spa day complete with massage, facials, ionic foot baths, and energy work.  The space is so peaceful and the practitioners were so pleasant.  They fed us and took care of us all day.  I would like to extend a special thank you to Jacob Caldwell who runs the space.  It was wonderful way to spend a Saturday and I’m grateful we were invited.

They will control the world, or have a few drinks together.

Last night there was a meeting of Seattle’s coworking illuminati, according to my sources. Okay, actually, Jacob and Susan told me that last night the owners of all five of Seattle’s coworking spaces went out for drinks together, but I thought the first lede was way more exciting to write.

Anyway, Jacob and Susan, co-owners of Office Nomads, knocked back a few stiff ones with Brian from Giraffe Labs, Brett from Greenwood Collective, Mike and Zachary from StartPad (where we’ve been before), and Nick from Seattle’s newest entry into coworking, Whitespace. Unfortunately, I wasn’t there so I can’t give you the uber-secret scoop on the sit-down. But I can tell you that the group had a good time and began to hatch some plans to help spread the gospel here in town.

Central to this plan, Jacob tells me, is to put together a group Web site that will act as a central resource for all those nomadic, upstart, collected, spacy or long-necked(?!) potential coworkers in the Emerald City. He’s not sure what will be on it yet, so neither am I, but you can rest assured, when I know, you’ll know.

In the meantime, with the Seattle coworking scene hopping this much, I feel like I am completely out of touch and here I am working in the center of it. Over the next few weeks I hope to make a visit myself to the other spaces I haven’t seen yet, and maybe even a repeat visit to StartPad just to say hi. I’ll make sure you know it’s going on so you can follow my coworking travels!

A side note: I’ve been on vacation which is why I haven’t written lately. But there’s a ton going on in the world of coworking right now so I have a ton of posts saved up that I want to write. More to come soon.