Lab1500

Who needs an office?
I mean, really, who really needs an actual office? If you’re reading this and you have an office, seriously, break it down. Do you need a cubicle? Is that gargantuan fax/​scanner/​printer really necessary anymore? Can’t you send a PDF? Meet a client over coffee, somewhere? And are you honestly more productive at a desk? Is the Boss Man keeping you on task, or annoying the heck out of your overly-​stressed bones?
I’ve been doing the remote thing for about three years, and I’ll tell you what I need: a hub. I need a place where I can pop in for an hour, maybe three, a place with comfortable seats, anti-​florescent-​lighting, solid wi-​fi and some bare-​brick walls with easy access to a good sandwich shop and a cuppa joe, and in Saint Louis I found it at Lab1500. That’s all you really need to know. Co-​working spaces are the #future of #OfficeSpace, and this place shines.

Spent a regional conference week here along with Aaron B and we spent two full days in the conference room. As mentioned, the space had everything we needed and the WiFi connection was excellent. No problems at all. Another reviewer mentioned that the space heaters didn’t cut it, but we were fine in mid February and it was snowing out.
The conference room was pretty standard, but was more than comfortable for the eight of us in the room. The space on the other side was really cool and we made our way over to check it out during break outs.
As a co-​working space, you might be hard pressed to find creative minds for collaboration. We were pretty much the only ones there for the entire time. Fine by me but, if I were looking for a space to co-​work from, I’d probably like to know what their membership is like.

We used this co-​working space last week for our company’s training week. The location is great, and the space itself was perfect for what we needed. We were mostly in the big room, with a projector, white boards, tables that were easily moveable and more.
There was a separate area with individual desks. As someone who works from home, I would love to have a place like this in OKC where I could work, even one day a week to break up the monotony of being at home, and avoid the bustle and chit chat of being at a coffee shop.
I highly recommend this place for all your co-​working and meeting needs.

We rented a room in this coworking space for our regional conference. They had a room on the first floor that could easily fit 25+ but we only had 8. This industrial spot had everything we needed: great wifi, projector set up with all the laptop hookups, and plenty of white board space.
The room itself is big and industrial. Super high ceilings, too. I don’t think I’ll be in there again anytime soon but it’s a great spot.
They also have plenty of desks and other spots in the room near it you can rent out on your own. Overall a really neat spot downtown!

We had our regional meeting here last fall. I think that it is a great concept for using a space that would otherwise be empty. It was well decorated and an all right place to house our 25 person event. It was cold that day and the space heaters they had spread around the room were not adequate. I’ll be curious to see how they develop their business.