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NextSpace Wants to be Your Next Office in Santa Cruz

Published September 7th, 2009 by Jennifer LeClaire

A cozy little coworking facility in Santa Cruz is getting plenty of help from the press in its quest to attract freelance workers who shun isolation like the swine flu.

NextSpace bills itself as a community. As NextSpace sees it, communities aren’t about companies. Communities are about people. And NextSpace is on a mission to help people create product, services, and solutions for the global marketplace. NextSpace members work in self-proclaimed inspiring surroundings, with inspiring people, smack in the middle of one of the most inspiring cities in the world.

What’s it gonna get you? If you are considering coworking at NextSpace, here’s what you get:

  1. A cool place to work
  2. All-you-can-consume utilities
  3. All downtown business fees
  4. Wired and wireless high-speed Internet connection
  5. Pay-per-use printing, copying, faxing, scanning, shredding and postage
  6. A Downtown Santa Cruz business address
  7. Hip conference rooms
  8. Access to coaching and consulting
  9. Networking and educational events, like “Free Pizza Fridays”
  10. Investors forums
  11. Freebies and discounts at local downtown businesses
  12. Free LuLu’s coffee

What’s it gonna cost you? There are three ways to join NextSpace. You can become a Café Member, a Carrel Member or an Office Member:

  1. Café Members pay $125 a month on a pay-as-you-go schedule
  2. Carrel Members pay $325 a month on a pay-as-you-go schedule, and you get your very own workstation 24/7/365
  3. Office Members pay from $600 a month to $1,500 a month, and you get your very own private office space with the ability to go hang out in the common area at any time
  4. Hey, guess what? If you are a mobile road warrior just passing through, you can rent a space for just $10 day and meet some cool people.

NextSpace has lots of great photos, videos and other information on its Web site. This is one of those coworking facilities that launched on the cutting edge, built a following on the cutting edge and looks like it plans to remain on the cutting edge. Check ‘em out, and tell them aBetterOffice.com sent you.

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About the Author

Jennifer LeClaire

Jennifer LeClaire is a veteran business journalist, editor and new media entrepreneur with a strong niche in real estate and technology. She works from a home office on the beach in South Florida. You can reach her through LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/in/jleclaire

5 Responses

Bill Brookshire September 8th, 2009 at 4:06 am

Sounds like a really cool place. What I have noticed that’s really interesting is how private office space and coworking is coming together. The culture of coworking, then, remains intact, but there is the private office option for those who really need it. NextSpace really seems to be a special officing environment, from what I understand.

Maggie Correta September 8th, 2009 at 9:38 am

NextSpace is one coworking facility that has used social media to the max. You don’t have to wonder what you are getting at NextSpace because they have so many photos and videos available. If you want to see the private office space, you can see it. If you want to see the common area, you can see it. I think this is really smart because it makes is so convenient for people looking to rent an office in Santa Cruz.

Elizabeth Sanchez September 8th, 2009 at 9:43 am

They got me with the free LuLu’s coffee. I wonder if that’s the Santa Cruz version of Starbucks? I had never heard of them. Never heard of NextSpace either. Looks like the local newspaper reporter there really loves the concept of coworking. The paper did several articles about this alternative office space set up featuring NextSpace.

Marcus Hester September 8th, 2009 at 9:46 am

Wow. I was shocked by some of the prices. Its seems like the coworking space itself is pretty cheap. But when you start getting any of the fringe benefits or add ons that go along with it, the office space costs add up pretty quick. It seems like the case with NextSpace is they are serving up an environment, a culture, how much you want to participate in that culture helps dictate price. If you want privacy, you are going to pay for it.

Jeremy Neuner, NextSpace CEO September 10th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Thanks for the nice write-up Jennifer. We definitely work hard to run NextSpace as a community first and as a facility second. So thanks for taking notice of that. We’re getting ready to celebrate our first anniversary in October and we’re pretty proud (and more than a little humbled) at how far we’ve come in such a short time. Thanks for noticing!

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