Building in public
A running journal of how a neighborhood coworking club actually gets made — the site search, the coffee testing, the furniture, the false starts. Posted when something real happens, not on a content calendar.
We spent the month touring available ground-floor retail between Rampart and Downtown Summerlin, measuring rooms, counting parking spaces and sitting in each one at 9am to see what the light does.
Nothing is signed. When we do sign, the block gets announced here first — and members hear before the internet does.
The coffee program is the part we refuse to get wrong, so we've been cupping with local roasters and pulling shots on borrowed equipment to settle on an espresso we'd happily drink twice a day.
No partnership is announced until an agreement is signed. What we can say: the house espresso will be roasted in this valley.
Every early conversation is going into the layout: how many phone booths, how quiet the desk room should be, whether the lounge faces the coffee bar or turns its back to it.
If you join the Founding 40, you get a real say in this while it's still cheap to change our minds.
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Ground Floor started with a frustration a lot of people here share: the valley is full of people who work from home, and almost nothing in the neighborhood is genuinely built for them. Coffee shops run out of outlets by ten. Offices downtown mean a highway and a badge.
So we're building the room we wanted — small, well made, five minutes from home, with coffee good enough to justify the trip on its own.
If you're thinking about joining, email us first. We'd rather have a real conversation than a form submission.
— Female-founded, built in Summerlin