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.”
Therefore, Domenico, a project executive with Chicago-based Synergy Construction Group, and the other Assemble partners decided to locate their new business at 1165 N. Clark St. in the Gold Coast and Old Town neighborhoods, the first such facility in the area. As reported in GlobeSt.com, it will open August 1, and they also plan to open a similar space somewhere in the West Loop.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
