Coming Events at The Warehouse

Now that we are (almost) settled in, we'd like to expand on our member/community events and programs.  We have loads of ideas for our educational, entertaining, and professional development agenda but we would always appreciate your input!  If you or someone you know have ideas as to how we can best utilize our space in this specific territory, drop us a line! Some exciting things we are working on for next month:

YOGA ON THE ROOF--donation based yoga classes for any level.

ART GALLERY SPACE--artists can volunteer to hang their work in our space and in turn we will offer them a free art opening to the public.  Artwork can also be accessed during our business hours for sale to the public for the duration of their time here.

FREELANCE FRIDAY (SEPTEMBER 30TH)--monthly social coworking meetup for freelancers, creatives, entrepreneurs, digital nomads, and telecommuters.   For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1811824682428911/

I hope you can join us in any future happenings here at The Warehouse.  We'd love to take advantage of everything that our community and it's members have to offer so if you have any thoughts, ideas, referrals, etc. please let us know!

 

 

 

 

The Warehouse: Where are we now?

We've realized after all our hard work opening The Warehouse these last couple of months, we've failed to give you an update on how things are going around here.  The doors officially opened for business May 16th. A few members who were faithfully committed before our big dusty warehouse even resembled a coworking space moved in a little earlier after patiently waiting weeks for permits to clear, furniture to be delivered, walls to be finished, and the literal dust to clear.  

As I write this article, 15 of our 20 offices, a handful of desks, and our ever growing communal coworking table are occupied with incredible people.  The most amazing part of coworking is being surrounded by folks from every single career path imaginable.  Our walls house web designers, graphic artists, a professor, architects, construction companies, non-profits, a production company, a photographer, and a lawyer to name a few.  We began our venture dedicated to diversity of industry so anyone who walked through the doors would feel like they belonged here.  Luckily that happened pretty organically due to our unique niche in the bywater. We are currently the only coworking space in this neighborhood of New Orleans and our biggest lesson was how significant of a role location would play.  Not only have we created an incredibly versatile work environment but as most of our members live in close vicinity, it has created more of a coworking neighborhood (as we've come to refer to it). Our bike racks are definitely getting their fair share of use!

Summer is a sleepy time of the year around here.  People head for the hills (since we surely don't have any) to avoid the humidity that is more likely to produce the random afternoon nap rather than productive workdays.  I think we've got it figured out though.  The secret to motivated, creative individuals: surround yourself with other motivated, creative individuals. Oh, and iced coffee.  LOTS of iced coffee.

 

 

We're open!

Welp, we've definitely fallen behind in our updates, but are so happy to announce that we're finally open! Still a few minor punch list items to complete, but our first members have started moving in and we're sweeping up the dust.

We'll be posting more photos and info in the weeks to come, but we can't wait to show you what we've been working on these past few months, so come say hi anytime and see for yourself, and we'll grab you a chair if you need a place to work for the day!

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One Step Closer

We have officially completed a very exciting part of our journey.  The floors have been finished! This was such an important milestone as it allowed us to truly visualize the space and what it will become (soon!)  It's neat to see these floors made up of all the little imperfections and tell the story of what this historic space has been over the years and all the exciting things that await in the future.

 

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The Warehouse

Hey guys!  We've spent the last month finetuning, we didn't forget about you!  Most importantly, our name changed.  This was a much tougher decision that we expected it to be, but we decided to pay homage to our beautiful space and keep it simple by calling it what it is...The Warehouse. We are all familiar with the legendary venue on Tchoupitoulas that hosted acts like Fleetwood Mac and the Grateful Dead bearing the same name, but we figured it was ok after 30+ years to revive the namesake.  We won't be hosting epic rock concerts (or maybe we will, who knows!) but we hope to make it just as awesome of a place nonetheless.  We will be posting some pics of the progress soon so stay in touch! 

Things are happening!

We've been hard at work choosing light fixtures, changing lightbulbs to try and get just the right mood, constructing mock offices, and learning how to (poorly) operate a scissor lift.  Tomorrow the concrete floors are starting their refinement period.  We'll keep you posted on all the exciting things coming up!

I'm pretty sure I ran into the wall right after this picture was taken.

I'm pretty sure I ran into the wall right after this picture was taken.