Atlanta’s Co-Working Spaces Challenge Developers To Design Differently

The Switchyards Downtown Club first opened for business in January of 2016. It was named ‘Best Co-working Space’ in 2017 by Creative Loafing.

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With more than two million square feet of co-working space in metro Atlanta, the metro area ranks among the top five markets for such space nationally.

These are offices that have flexible leases and come with amenities like arcade games, free food, and even nap rooms.

Shared office spaces account for just 1.5 percent of total office inventory in the Atlanta market, but it’s responsible for more than 60 percent of total office occupancy gains in Atlanta over the past 24 months, according to the commercial real estate firm JLL.