This is a beautiful space on South Harrington Street in the Warehouse district. Like many areas in the warehouse district, parking is complicated, but just drive around the block with the same strategy that you have when you go to Humble Pie (across the street) or The Pit (around the corner).
Nice hardwood floors. High ceilings. Steel beams. Modern fixtures. Abstract art. Open space. A great venue for events like the one I attended tonight with a wide great room and some small rooms off to the side. As the daughter of a builder, I was impressed with the design and the layout too. As a sometimes event planner, I also appreciated. Nicely done. When you're networking, you want to be able to see well and move around easily.
From what I learned tonight, this is also a great location for start-ups, entrepreneurs, small businesses and people who just need an office space. It's collaborative and friendly with the allowance for your own work space. In addition to the networking event tonight, I did talk to some people who actually work in offices there.
They said it could be a little hard to concentrate at times with people coming and going or playing music with such open spaces. Downstairs I saw a ping-pong table and large counter-space. Apparently sometimes they have food there. My new friend pointed out that it can also be a little distracting knowing there's beer on tap downstairs... maybe so, but I relax a little after a drink and work better (no, I'm serious -- did most of my top notch graduate work with wine in hand). But, we're all different.
There are some really neat businesses at home at HQ Raleigh though. Really neat to check something like this out for myself. read more