Making space in Denver: Makerspaces for community building and workforce development
Making space in Denver: Makerspaces for community building and workforce development Market forces are powerful. Try as we might (and we should) to build enough housing, most agree that we will be unable to build enough housing over the next few years to...
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Meet our new Board President Christi Smith!
Christi joined Urban Land Conservancy in 2010 and is responsible for marketing, public relations and all communications between ULC staff, Board of Directors, partners, media and the community. She also manages overall operations of the organization and enhances...
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Are you experiencing challenges in finding warehouse/storage spaces, culinary kitchens, or art/makerspaces? You’re not alone!
On May 18th the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships and Denver Shared Spaces hosted their first Learning Lab, focused on needs for affordable real estate beyond traditional administrative office space settings. I am increasingly receiving calls from mission-driven...
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Denver Shared Spaces is on the move – Innovative collaboratives are teaming up to strengthen community-based resources
Denver, CO (February 9, 2017) – Denver Shared Spaces (DSS) announces that it has a new home under Radian, Inc., a non-profit design center providing services to community-based initiatives. DSS is on the leading edge of the national trend toward intentional, shared...
read moreShared Space Series—The Alliance Center on Sustainability & Efficiency
In the final installment of the Shared Space Series on The Alliance Center, Denver Shared Spaces wanted to highlight key features of what green shared spaces look like and how shared spaces often grow and develop with intention and purpose around a few key areas.
read moreShared Space Series—The Alliance Center on Emergency Preparedness
In Part II of our Shared Space Series and lessons learned from The Alliance Center, Denver Shared Spaces explored the meaning and activities related to emergency preparedness in shared space. A space as large and as tenured as The Alliance Center knows a lot about...
read moreHaving trouble finding your way around?
As we have discussed in previous blog posts, Denver is facing an affordability crisis. The average market rate for Class B office space in Denver was $21.59 per square foot as of the end of Q3, up from $21.45 per square foot for Class B space as of the close of Q2...
read moreApplying an Employee Resource Group Model to Shared Spaces
Shared spaces for non-profits are, by their nature, collaborative. In Denver’s tight real estate market, a major benefit of organizations sharing space is, of course, splitting rent costs and other shareable resources. But cost was not the most important benefit for...
read moreA Huge Step for an Incredible Organization
Since joining the Urban Land Conservancy in the beginning of the year, I came to recognize the Denver Shared Spaces team as one in the same with ULC. The lines that shaped each organization into its own entity didn’t exist in my eyes, and I tended to forget that we...
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