Caroline Collective

We’re just so excited about the economics of saving ink and having the option of color & black and white at Caroline Collective that we had to share this with you. Caroline Collective has recently acquired a new laser printer.¬† This Brother HL-2170 monochrome printer can print 23 pages per…

Caroline Collective is really big. When we say Big we mean HUGE. The lot is 15,000 square feet, 6,000 square feet of it of are building, a couple thousand square feet of it landscaping and the rest is parking and common space. Bit by bit we’re slowing terraforming every square…

Before opening last year we spent awhile shopping around for a table solution for our dedicated members. While IKEA offers a larger version of the table that most other coworking spaces in the nation use as their dedicated desk, we knew that our budget couldn’t support purchasing a complement of…

“Home improvements” take at least triple the time allotted to them and are always costly.

We never seem to learn this lesson. But seriously, anything construction related takes almost triple the time allotted and double the cost. Take our lock-replacement scenario for example. We needed to replace a lock on…

Sometimes a chain and a padlock is just not good enough.

But a padlock alone will work for now. It’s taken us almost exactly a year to get around to this, and honestly it’s always been at the top of our to-do-list. But, dude, it’s hard to find a welder…

Be inclusive and liberal but also judicious with what and who comes into your space.

Part of our mission is to be as open and inclusive as possible. This is how we work to create a productive atmosphere and maintain an innovative and exciting buzz. Diversity and opportunity are important…

Stay in close contact with your landlords. They can help with problems.

Speaking as landlords of a type, and being under our own, we know first-hand how crucial close communication between both sides of the equation can be to a successful business relationship. From our experience, very few people actually…

$10.00 Suggested Day-Rate

We’ve struggled with this one for a while. Since the beginning of Caroline Collective we’ve been adamant about keeping our day-rate free. The central idea of Caroline Collective is to foster community and serendipitous connections across a wide range of interests, skill and boundaries — charging folks…

Be kind to your neighbors. No one in the community-building business can afford to p-off the neighbors, it’s just bad pr.

Here’s another “duh” lesson. Aside from just being plain rude it’s bad business.¬† Granted, we’ve tried to mediate the need to both show-case under-represented artists and simultaneously foster a…

It makes no sense for the care-takers of coworking spaces to work out of an office.

We know this sounds a bit obvious, but (and we can’t believe we’re admitting to this) we actually worked in the front office of Caroline for, well probably about 4 months before we caught…