![]() ![]() ![]() “When you walk by any coffee shop, you see people piled on top of each other trying to make a productive space with laptops,” Preston says. We’ve come to accept that as fact, but Spacious Founder Preston Pesek - who has a background in commercial real estate - looked around New York and saw something slightly different. Not if Spacious has anything to say about it.Ĭities across the world have a space problem: There are too many people trying to live in too few square miles. So does that mean that coffee shop owners are just going to have to be resigned to customers who buy one cup of coffee and then get aggravated when the wifi cuts out? When you walk by any coffee shop, you see people piled on top of each other trying to make a productive space with laptops Today, however, we’ve added coworking spaces in every major city and more than a few minor ones, but coffee shops are still packed to breaking. I was one of those people one of the first to start working remotely when I wasn’t able to get a “real job” during the Great Recession.īack then, even as the coffee shops filled to a breaking point and people waged passive aggressive evil eye wars over the too-few plug points, we were still in the minority. In cities across the country, coffee shops rapidly made the transition from lively spaces full of chatter, dates, friends, and books to libraries inhabited by intense humans staring into screens, each in their own earphone-isolated world. A weird thing started happening about five to ten years ago. ![]()
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