Broken Pieces
For the past 20 months, I have had a desk in a co-working facility in Burlington, Vermont called HULA. It’s an amazing place. Visitors marvel that THIS could be located in northern Vermont. It’s an old oven factory located on Lake Champlain that has been completely modernized and added to. It’s spacious, very bright due to huge windows everywhere, and boasts net-zero energy usage due to solar panels covering the entire roof. Like most projects of this scale, it took entrepreneurs with vision and a high-risk tolerance to make it happen. By all measures, it’s a great success. There are over 400 “members.” About half are connected to the 50+ businesses based here with enclosed office spaces. Another 200 or so are “air disk” members, typical of co-working places everywhere – they have 24/7 access and sit wherever they find open spaces and desks, never a problem to find. About 50 of us have “designated desks,” which provides us with our own sit-to-stand desk situated next to a window, with a filing cabinet, a small bookcase, and dividers between desks. There are 16 conference rooms and about 20 phone booths available to all members for meetings or extended call or Zoom. The reason this is relevant to my Run Strategies blog … Continue reading