Downtown Working

I spent a few hours Saturday and Sunday down at Suite133 this weekend sprucing things up and moving furniture around. Suite133 is a new co-working space in downtown Tacoma that should be opening by October.

The idea of a co-working space starts with the assumption that small businesses and creative entrepreneurs are usually stuck working out of their homes and coffee shops. Coffee shops are great, but productivity goes down and caffeine intake goes up, because you feel guilty hanging out there without buying things. So the co-working model is to find a cool space, put in a lot of tables and chairs, and then add office necessities like wifi, printing, faxing, and 2 private conference rooms. A space like this would have been very helpful for me last year when I was having a million meetings in coffee shops about the Horatio.

Suite133 will be the first co-working space in Tacoma. Derek at Exit133, Seamus Holman (a local designer), and I are working to get it off the ground. We found a really cool space at 7th & Pacific, kitty corner from Old City Hall, overlooking a small pocket park, and with a slew of great restaurants around.

There's more in the Business Examiner Daily and at Exit133. Also at Suite133.com, of course.

And speaking of the Horatio, things haven't stopped, they've just been slowly moving. But they are moving! I have some good directors and some good plays. We're just looking for some good venues to go with those.

In the meantime, check out the new Studio 21 production, "The Steward of Christendom," which opens this Thursday in the theater at Commencement Bay. The Horatio co-produced "Molly Sweeney" with Studio 21 February so it's great to see them putting more theater up in the space we developed.