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Common Desk Community Manager Aaron Ellis (left) believes the timing is prime for a trendy shared workspace to open in a city like Wilmington, which is seeing growth and revitalization. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
WILMINGTON – Just a year ago, the coworking industry was exploding. These trendy shared workspaces – which have gained popularity in places like San Francisco, Atlanta and Raleigh – started eyeing moves to smaller markets like Wilmington.
Pre-Covid, 77% of coworking companies planned on opening new locations in 2019, according to a Coworker Member’s Choice Awards
The idea of swapping gray cubicles and water coolers for a ping-pong break, luxury coffee and craft beer, and a shared entrepreneurial spirit was persuading millennial freelancers, tech startups and everyone in between to buy memberships at shared workplaces.