A Vision for 15 Broad St. - An Akron Ohio Digital Center

I try not to focus too much on one geographic audience. But this is something that I’ve been thinking about a lot and want to talk to with you on the subject.

First, if you don’t know, we bought our building going on two years ago. (We’ll be at 15 Broad St. for two years in March)

For most of that time we have shared the space with two other companies.

SKYTECH TRAINING – Public, Private and Virtual IT Training

Archer Retail Construction

The guys at Archer have recently renovated the back building of the property and have moved out of the main building.

This is the floor plan of the entire property:

So, we now have a few areas in the main building that are open.

This is what I’m thinking:

I’d like to setup a Digital Center in Akron.

I’m thinking it would be really cool if we could get several companies in the building that are related but non-competing.

Ideas include:

Design
Writers
General marketers
Social media experts
Videography
Photography (I have a room that has the potential for being a sweet studio for both video and photography.)
Public Relations
PHP coder
ASP.NET coder
Email
Print specialist

Those are the ones off the top of my head. But I’m open to others. I would love to have a place where like-minded people could come to work and collaborate.

Every time we have a person like one of the above people come in to our building magic starts happening. People start talking to each other about jobs they are working on. Then someone else says something like, “Wow. That’s really cool. Have you thought about doing this…”

There is something so powerful about getting a group of people together.

Here are my initial thoughts on logistics:

You could rent month-to-month desk space.
The rent would be by the desk ($125/month).

If you need full rooms we have that too.

Everything is included with that.

Free Internet
Free heat
Free air conditioning
Free water and trash
Everything is included with that rate.
The only thing it doesn’t include is a phone line. But cell phones and Skype solve that problem these days. And if you are really in need of a wired phone line I’m sure we can figure something out.

We also have a large conference room and kitchen that is included too.

I have more pictures here.

I think this could be a really powerful collaboration center that would help us all make more money.

So, if you are working at home or would like a more flexible office space filled with similar companies that get what you are all about, please let me know. I’d love to talk with you and show you the space.

You can click here to fill out a form that will come to me.

Or call me at: 330-379-9000 ex 5010

I truly believe this could be a great opportunity for everybody.