Gensler Defines Professional Coworking for MakeOffices

Coworking is a growth business. Estimates from Small Business Labs place coworking memberships at just over 1 million by 2022, with providers offering nearly 6,200 locations. Some of these new locations will be in Washington, D.C., a leader among coworking hot spots. MakeOfficesis doing all it can to drive the expansion of coworking in the nation’s capital and enlisted Gensler’s Washington, D.C. office in that effort. The firm has designed five locations so far. MakeOffices operates in Chicago and Philadelphia in addition to its nine sites in D.C. When gauged by population, the D.C. metro area is fourth in the nation in the number of coworking spaces at 42.80 per 100,000 residents. Although it follows San Francisco, Miami and Atlanta in rankings by SimpleTesting.com, the D.C. metro bests four of the nation’s six top real estate markets in total coworking locations. By September 2018, leases for coworking spaces in the …