For the past 5 months I have been working from home using our guest bedroom as my office. For the most part, it has been great. But, there is a growing sense of needing to get out of the house and try to separate my work and home lives. Currently, they tend to blend together since it’s so easy to walk by the “office”, sit down to fire off a quick email and look up 3 hours later wondering what just happened. I’m not looking to stop working from home for good, but, what I really want is a place where I can go a couple days a week. What I want is a coworking space. To be a little more specific, what I’d really like is an exact copy of Reno Collective transplanted to Las Vegas!
While leaving Lake Tahoe last weekend, we stopped off for a tour of Reno Collective. What they’ve put together is a perfect blueprint of what I’d like to use as my secondary office. They have an open area with a few long tables for people to work in a comfortable atmosphere, a wall-sized whiteboard for people to diagram ideas and a huge area with a projector and screen for hosting meetups or presentations. It’s a bonus that the meetup area is separate from the common work area, so people who need to get some work down while the meetup is in progress wouldn’t be bothered. There are no cubes and no offices. Just a bunch of space for people looking to get some work done and maybe collaborate and share ideas.
The one thing I miss most about working in an office is the interaction with other people working on similar projects. Sure, I have Instant Message, Skype and a cell phone. But, none of that compares to being able to quickly bounce ideas of others in person.
Kudos to Colin Loretz and the rest of the team at Reno Collective. You’ve got a great thing going up there and I hope it’s a huge success!
If you are in the Las Vegas area and interest in a coworking space, let me know!
Hey, John —
I know that @dwax was interested in a coworking space last year. Also, there was one announce late 2009, but I don't know what the status of it is: http://3gconstructiongroup.com/?p=258. Let me know if I can assist you in any way with the coworking space.
Would be interested for sure… though not sure how often I would hit it up. But the option to go somewhere like that would be awesome.
We do need stuff like that in Vegas. We also need a better community of developer events.
We'd love to help any way we can. Ed and I used to work out of coffee shops, bars and pretty much any place that had Wifi. It was entertaining for a while but its nice to have a designated place to separate work and home, as well work and your social life (in the case of the bars).
That sounds really cool! I would love to work somewhere else a couple days a week for the change of scenery and interaction too.
Did you ever find a place to co-work? I actually have access to some office space that I need to use. I'm in a similar position to you where I don't want to go to work often, but on occasion I might just want to. Not to mention the occasional meeting with clients.
If you're still looking let me know and I could see about sub letting some of my space.
John, let's talk. I'm definitely interested in having a place to go to get out of the house but still get some work done.
Thanks!
I am interested. And, I might have some location ideas.
I am moving to Vegas in a month and I am definitely interested. Please email me if something is afoot. I’ll be glad to pitch in and help make this happen in some way if necessary. I am casually connected with several experienced coworking types in the SF and DC areas, whom I can call on for advice.
Looks like this post is pretty old, but I might be interested as well.
There is Officially a coworking space in Las Vegas Located at 3091 W. Tompkins Ave. Las Vegas NV. 89103 we offer a ton of things that you cannot find any were else or at any other coworking space we have another one come very soon opening on Fremont St. Downtown were the hub of the small business tech scene is in Vegas to be opened in the next couple weeks. Feel free to email me or go to our website for more info and a number to reach us. We are waiting to here from you