Grand Opening Celebration at Gravitate Downtown

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Grand Opening Celebration and Ribbon Cutting last week. It was a pretty special event and I’m glad that you were a part of it. Attendance was far bigger than we expected but thankfully we bought enough beer, wine and snacks.

We’re really proud of the new Gravitate Coworking—Downtown space and the community that gives it life every day. We couldn’t wait for the event to be able to share it with all of you.

Kelsey Lampe 10/17/17 Kelsey Lampe 10/17/17

New sign at Gravitate Downtown

We're pretty excited to show off the new sign we've installed at Gravitate Downtown. One of the reasons that we chose this location was the amazing windows on Locust St and we were excited to land on a design for the graphics that take advantage of their height.

Kelsey Lampe 11/23/16 Kelsey Lampe 11/23/16

Fostering a Global Community in downtown Des Moines: Meet Gravitate’s International Members

As the holiday season approaches, it’s important to take time to reflect and remember all the reasons we have to give thanks. At Gravitate, we’re thankful to be part of Des Moines’ strong, vibrant entrepreneurial community. We’re thankful for innovative ideas, supportive community partners, and a diverse collection of passionate members. So as Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, we’d like to introduce you to some Gravitate members who originally hail from outside of the United States.

Kelsey Lampe 2/22/16 Kelsey Lampe 2/22/16

Coworking is Real Estate as a Service

On a recent episode of the Rocketship podcast, Jay Chernikoff of DeskHub talks about how coworking spaces are an important part of building entrepreneurial communities in secondary and tertiary markets (not San Francisco, New York, Austin, etc). As startup community builder in such a market, who operates a coworking community, I found their entire episode interesting and valuable but here are two ideas that I wanted to share here.

Kelsey Lampe 1/26/16 Kelsey Lampe 1/26/16

List of coworking communities in Iowa

In preparing for the first meeting of the Iowa Coworking Collaborative earlier this month, David Tominsky and I built out a spreadsheet of contact information for all the coworking communities throughout the state.

Kelsey Lampe 1/20/16 Kelsey Lampe 1/20/16

Building coworking communities in Iowa

Last Friday I had the chance to meet up with 20-something other individuals from across our state to talk about something we have in common: building coworking communities.