{"id":32836,"date":"2018-11-08T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=32836"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:08:57","slug":"saratoga-coworks-second-location-offers-modern-work-space-to-business-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2018\/11\/saratoga-coworks-second-location-offers-modern-work-space-to-business-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Saratoga CoWorks Second Location Offers Modern Work Space To Business People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saratoga CoWorks has opened new innovative space at 462 Broadway in Saratoga Springs. The 3,300-square-foot collaborative space is on the second floor, above BurgerFi restaurant.
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Article Updated November 21, 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Maureen Werther<\/p>\n

Nickolas Goupil, an engineer employed by Jeffords Steel and Engineering, sits in his private office with two large computer screens lit up in front of him, displaying engineering drawings and designs he is working on for his Plattsburgh-based company.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He works remotely from his office in Saratoga CoWorks at 462 Broadway, part of an expansive 3,300-square-foot space above BurgerFi restaurant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Goupil and his wife moved from Plattsburgh to Saratoga Springs in August<\/span> and they\u2019ve been working out of Saratoga CoWorks ever since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith technology the way it is, this makes working remotely very easy for me,\u201d said Goupil, whose wife, Sarah Merkel, occupies another one of the seven private office spaces rented by her company, ETS Staffing, on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n

The CoWorks location on Broadway is the second space of its kind. The first Saratoga CoWorks at 153 Regent St., in an historic building owned by drb Business Interiors, is currently bustling with activity from entrepreneurs and professionals in industries ranging from creative to accounting, to thoroughbred racing and \u201cgreen\u201d technology firms, and software developers to nonprofit organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The bottom line, according to drb owner and president Dorothy Rogers-Bullis and her husband, Dan Bullis of Saratoga CoWorks, is the ability for professionals to connect with other professionals. As space at the Regent Street location began to fill up, they realized it was time to expand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a 2018 Global Coworking Survey, a total of 1.7<\/span> million people will work in more than 19,000 coworking spaces by the end of 2018.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Twenty-nine percent of those 19,000 spaces opened in the last year alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The other trend being seen by analysts is a shift to more expanded work areas, with the average coworking space expanding their areas by about 70 percent. In addition, operators of existing cowork spaces are opening new locations to accommodate their growing clientele base and cement loyalty with their members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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