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Aug 25, 2017 - 08:25 AM
I don't know about the best but I've worked out of Orange Studios in Overlake, Impact Hub Seattle and Atlas Workbase in Queen Anne. Below are my reviews of each:
Review of 3 Co-Working Spaces
Impact Hub Seattle
Pros
Pros
Orange Studios, Overlake, Redmond
Pros
Review of 3 Co-Working Spaces
Impact Hub Seattle
Pros
- Lots of members (nearly 800) therefore great for networking
- Decently upscale look and feel
- Weekly community lunches and sometimes interesting speakers so it is easy to meet new people and one feels a sense of community
- Reasonable price. $105 for a 5 days a month pass, $225 for 3 days a month pass. $345 per month for a full time hot desk.
- Naping rooms available
- Free beverages: coffee, tea, hot chocolate
- Free fruit: bananas, apples, pears and occasionally tangerines
- Friendly hosts.
- One can get free space in exchange for being a host—manning the reception, helping out members.
- Both hot desks and offices available.
- In the heart of pioneer square so lots of food options.
- Phone booths for private conversations
- External monitors on all the hot desks suitable for dual-monitor work setup.
- After hour option available at a decent price i.e. for those who have a regular job elsewhere but may want to work on a startup after hours.
- Too many social impact companies i.e. do-gooders with no sense of business or how their venture will make money. If you are running a for profit startup/venture it can be a little exhausting meeting too many of these people.
- No parking. Using your own vehicle can be expensive.
- The private phone booths are only available for 90 minutes per day, cannot be booked in advance (only on the day of) and are frequently all in use.
- Occasional issues with Wi-Fi connectivity especially when there are large events on the first floor.
- Members are responsible for cleaning their own dishes so sometimes there are messes in the kitchen.
- Older appliances (microwaves) that frequently malfunction (circuit breaker triggered and needs to be reset).
Pros
- Free covered parking in the building basement.
- Super upscale look and feel (probably the best of all the co-working spaces). The desks, furniture are all first class. High end cutlery, plates, glasses, cups and appliances (microwaves).
- Free beverages: coffee, tea
- Free fruit: bananas, oranges, tangerines
- Free breakfast foods: cereal, pastries and sometimes hot foods like sausage burritos
- Enough phone booths for private conversations
- Friendly staff
- Pay for what you use—the billing is by the hour. Unlike the other spaces, if you only spend a few hours on a given day it does not count as a whole day.
- The staff clean up so it is always neat and tidy.
- The few external monitors available are too big. They are more like projection screens than monitors that can be used for a dual-monitor setup.
- The bathrooms are unisex. I have to keep reminding myself of this when I run into women in the bathroom and it is disconcerting.
- No community events. Difficult to meet the other companies working in the space.
- No napping rooms (to be fair only Impact Hub has this)
Orange Studios, Overlake, Redmond
Pros
- Reasonable prices for hot desks. $175/month for 3 days for a hot-desk and $225 for full time hot desk.
- Free beverages. Soda, coffee, tea.
- Free parking
- Friendly staff
- External monitors available for dual-mon setup.
- 3D printer available
- Really long wait to get dedicated offices (several months)
- Only one phone booth for private conversations
- Conference rooms are frequently booked and the hot-desk packages only allow you a few credits to use them
- Few community events so it is difficult to get to know the other companies using the space.
- The external monitors need to be obtained from the receptionist and are not permanently stationed on the desks (like at Impact Hub Seattle).
- Much smaller space so few networking opportunities.
Aug 29, 2017 - 09:26 AM
WeWork Bellevue is also great. Hot desks start at $300 per month but have a long waiting list. Dedicated desks are $450. Net-net, it is a super nice space. The big problem is parking, which is not covered. The cheapest option is $130 per month, a medium walk from the building. Parking inside the building (Lincoln Square South) is prohibitively expensive.
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