Oh Yeah! We Got Some Coworking Action!

I’ve been doing some kind of coworking in San Antonio since September 2007. We started a full time session at La Taza Coffee House in January 2008 and then a weekly Jelly Coworking session at Casa Chiapas (now closed) in October 2008.

Last November Jennifer Navarette challenged me to open a full time location in 2009 and I’m are well on the way to that with a number of interested full timers and some partners.

In December, Mandi Leman put out some feelers about opening up a few full time or daily desks at her Blellow space on S. Alamo.

In the last month I’ve heard about a number of new “coworking” locations or initiatives. Some are true coworking, some are more incubatorish and a few undefined. Here’s the list.

• The owners of Radius Cafe are providing coworking desks to a few non-profits to help them bootstrap their operations
• Doanld Wilcox is doing some surveying about coworking (space or sessions?) on the Northwest side.
• The City of San Antonio and Westside Development Corporation sent a survey about a “creative incubator” on the West side.
• The San Antonio Technology Center off Fredericksburg is looking at coworking (assisted by Dean McCall)
• UTSA (1604 campus) is also looking at coworking (again assisted by Dean McCall)
• St. Mary’s University is looking at a coworking-ish incubator (maybe tied in to the City’s creative incubator?)
• The Community Development Loan Fund is looking to do a non-profit incubator/coworking space in some historic houses they own on Poplar.

Austin ain’t got nuthin’ on us.