Shared Office Space Co. Going National

CHICAGO—Shared office spaces have become quite popular in the CBDs of many cities, especially top-tier real estate markets like New York and San Francisco, but the founders of Assemble, the newest such space in Chicago, believe a demand exists in neighborhoods outside the downtowns.

“When we did our due diligence, we saw a lot of shared office space in River North,” Phil Domenico, the managing member of Assemble, tells GlobeSt.com. But many of the freelancers, contract workers, financial advisors, and other workers for small companies they spoke to needed workspaces closer to home. In many coffee shops across the city, but especially in the Gold Coast, “there are people grinding away, working uncomfortably.”