The Chuck Roast Venture Center has the space you need for your business start-up, art studio, freelance consulting, professional workspace, or non-profit organization office. The key concept is affordable space! This was identified in a Mt. Washington Valley Regional Collaborative Report as a key factor in trying to boost the local economy by nurturing business start-ups.

Some entrepreneurial businesses such as web designers, graphics design professionals, independant sales people, can start as home-based businesses, but many feel a need to create work-life separation, or miss the socialization, support, and mentorship that comes from a workplace. This is the gentle ramp toward a business address and sense of community that the Chuck Roast Venture Center can offer.

You can start here for as low as $90 per month (1-2 days), as a member in the Coworking Center. Or you can have the privacy and security of a small office starting at $175 per month. We also have several larger offices (just one still available) and if your business requires manufacturing, warehousing, and shipping space we have 3,200 sq. ft. available now.

All spaces include:

• highspeed internet
• use of the conference room (as available)
• coffee bar
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Need Childcare?
For those with pre-school age children, Little Hands, Big Dreams, is a private childcare center conveniently located in our building.
(note: this is not an included service)

Affordable Space is Key
Excerpt from Mt. Washington Valley Regional Collaborative Report

Strategies to Support Economic Diversification
A major potential for diversifying the regional economy is growing and attracting, small, independent businesses. While economic development groups are actively recruiting and attracting larger businesses to the region, successfully nurturing small and start-up businesses is more challenging.
Costs are especially important to small, independent businesses. They may be start-ups or sole proprietors with a growing business, for whom assuming the cost of space is a major consideration. Lower-cost space is often where these businesses get started, thrive and grow.

There are two parts to the cost equation that must be considered:

[1] Ongoing occupancy cost: the financial burden of covering monthly rent or the cost of owning the space can be an insurmountable hurdle to fledging businesses. This is one of the reasons home-based businesses are so important: it is typically the lowest cost option for starting a business and developing a business plan to be competitive in a market.

[2] Front-end costs: getting necessary approvals and permits to establish a business or build a small commercial space can be onerous. Complying with local requirements can result in excessive cost to the developer or business owner if not carefully planned and prepared.

Venture Center Ground Floor
Over the past year we have built out the ground floor to create four offices, a yoga studio, and a 40'x40' space currently being used for a presidential campaign office. This floor is now fully ADA compliant, with a ramp entrance, and an ADA restroom.

Small Offices $175+

We have all 4 small offices (all currently leased), just under 10'x10'. Each one has a window that opens and is hard-wired for internet as well as having wireless broadband. (included in rent)

Coworker Space

What is Coworking?

The idea is simple: independent professionals and those with workplace flexibility work better together than they do alone. Coworking spaces are about community building and sustainability. Participants agree to uphold the values of collaboration, openness, community, accessibility, and sustainability. We are about creating better places to work and as a result, a better way to work and to ease the transition for the self-employed and provide business support, resources and a sense of community.

For these same small businesses that are straddling the gap between a home office and a public place to meet clients, coworking allows for flexible professional workspace without the commitment to expensive overhead. Many of these entrepreneurs are just looking for a way to further themselves through workshops, experiential classes, and a local community of other businesses to connect with. More about Coworking

Inc.

6 Reasons Why 2016 Will Be the Year of Co-Working
Here are some of the reasons more freelancers, startups, and other businesses are going the coworking route.
By Jeremy Goldman, Founder and CEO, Firebrand Group @jeremarketer

More and more Americans are turning to freelance employment; in fact, by some accounts, it's now reached 34% of the workforce. These workers are looking for productive spaces to conduct their businesses. When your home isn't conducive to concentrating and cafes are too loud and crowded, where is a freelance professional supposed to work? One major solution to this growing problem is coworking spaces--communal offices that are shared by new businesses, digital companies, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. Full Article

Why People Thrive in Co-working Spaces
There seems to be something special about coworking spaces. As researchers who have, for years, studied how employees thrive, we were surprised to discover that people who belong to them report levels of thriving that approach an average of 6 on a 7-point scale. This is at least a point higher than the average for employees who do their jobs in regular offices, and something so unheard of that we had to look at the data again.Harvard Business Review (full article)

Work Spaces

We have offices from 95 sq. ft. starting at $175 per month up to 400 sq. ft. at $500 per month. Co-working "shared" space is available in our conference room or other available office space for $35/wk or $90/mo (1-2 days/week) or unlimited usage for $60/wk or $150/mo.

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