Common Desk, a coworking space company that launched in Deep Ellum and now has nearly two dozen locations in North Texas, Austin, Houston, and North Carolina—has its eyes on The Hill. The Hill Shopping Center, that is—a trendy retail development on Walnut Hill Lane near U.S. 75.
Clark was a recent guest on Keurig's "Café Culture" podcast, which explored ideas about creating café culture from the coworking category.
In the podcast, Clark talks about how he founded Common Desk; how he loves it when people walk in off the street mistaking the company's locations for a bar; and how he first discovered the "magic" of having "serendipitous interactions" while coworking.
But two topics jump out of the podcast: why it's important for introverts to be "prodded" into going back to the office, and why companies should look for "culture adds," not "culture fits."
Common Desk CEO: Flexibility and Hospitality are Keys to Riding the Wave of 'Cataclysmic Change' in the Future of Office
Now under the WeWork umbrella, Common Desk aims to shape the growth of the flexible workspace industry. While offices still engage in what Clark calls "an amenity race," they're now more in competition with home offices rather than one another.
It's the first acquisition by WeWork as a public company since its new CEO's arrival.
Common Desk, founded in Dallas by Nick Clark in 2012, has grown its network to serve 4,000 customers at 23 locations in Texas and North Carolina. It will now operate as "Common Desk, a WeWork Company."
August Real Estate Co. selected Common Desk to reposition the historic Continental Gin Building for the future of office. Common Desk's team will touch all aspects of the building, from design to property management—Founder Nick Clark says it's going to be a "holistic offering the market has yet to see."
Trey Bowles and Delanie Majors from The DEC Network hosted Founder and CEO of Common Desk Nick Clark to discuss how his company is innovating to help entrepreneurs get back into shared office spaces.
Fiction Coffee has expanded from its flagship location at Ross and Hall with a branch at Four Oaks Place, one of the largest and most prestigious office campuses in Houston.
This year, Common Desk launched its own app, raised its first round of funding, and expanded outside of Dallas-Fort Worth for the first time. Now, the coworking company is headed to Raleigh, the only out-of-state location.
Common Desk announced late last year that it was opening its sixth location at Factory SixO3. Now, it's the coworking company's new headquarters, where it's moved with 49 employees.
Deskpass provides users a streamlined menu of coworking and meeting spaces to choose from. The app and membership service is now available in North Texas with more than 130 locations, including Common Desk, CraftWork Coffee Co., and Worksuites.
Common Desk has invested in Her.HQ, a Dallas-headquartered experiential workspace for women that's been operating as a pop-up in the Arts District. With the investment, Common Desk will move out of its Oak Cliff space so Her.HQ can take over.
Dallas-headquartered Common Desk has launched Ellum—which pays homage to Common Desk's Deep Ellum roots—to "enhance every workday" by connecting people through amenities. With IoT buttons, a web-facing platform, and back-end management technology, Ellum provides quick access to a variety of hospitality features.
Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 12 in the nation, with coworking and flexible space accounting for more than 3 million square feet of space—1.7 percent of DFW's total office space inventory.
A recent report from Dallas-headquartered Regus found that flexible working creates economic, personal, and environmental benefits. Coworking companies are on pace in North Texas, ramping up new locations — most recently, Common Desk, Venture X, and new-from-Houston The Work Lodge.
Coincidentally coinciding with its sixth anniversary, Common Desk's new location will garner over 18,000 square feet of coworking space in Factory Six03.
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