I attended the Coworking Incubator/Accelerator Community Brainstorming Session yesterday in the Archer House lower level conference room, hosted by the Northfield Enterprise Center.
I don’t have time to summarize what happened (hopefully, ED Megan Tsui will do that!) but I’m guessing there will be a website within a month, as Sean Hayford O’Leary and I volunteered to get that going.
Folks-
We’ve got some fun news! I took the bull by the horns and created a website/blog for the coworking project. Check it out and come back often for updates.
http://www.northfieldcoworking.com
Megan
Thanks for the alert, Megan. Is there an RSS feed for the blog so that you can add it to Northfield.org’s blogosphere aggregator?
Megan, I see at the top of the site:
and that the mission statement on the About page doesn’t mention anything about coworking, only the NEC.
Has the NEC made a decision to develop the facility and provide the space on its own, as your wording indicates? Or might it still consider supporting/partnering with a private effort?
I’m sure there is, I just need to figure out how to do it! Stay tuned!
Griff,
Contingent on future funding, the NEC is planning on developing a non-profit space that incorporates business Incubator and Accelerator programs to support small businesses in the community.
Are you aware of another group that is ready to talk about support/partnership opportunities?
Megan
Megan, while you were on vacation, I had coffee with Jim Goodman and Sean Hayford O’Leary (in the photos above) and they’re evidently hard at work to get a Northfield coworking facility up and running ASAP.