We’ve moved! Brikolodge is pleased to announce the new location of Brikolodge will be in Midtown Miami. The actual address is 3301 NE 1st Ave, Unit L207, Miami, FL 33137.
The new space features a full kitchen, 600 sq ft of balcony, 1800 sqft of workspace, a conference room, 3 full bathrooms, storage units, 24/7 security, as well as a beautiful common area located on the 7th floor. The common area has a pool, lounge chairs, plenty of tables and chairs, grass area, full gym and yoga room, among other features. Come check it out!
The building is also equipped with wifi access to offer poolside workspace!
Give us a call at 786-239-7380, shoot us an email coworkingmiami@gmail.com, @Brikolodge, or just stop by!
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Brikolodge Featured | Thrillist Miami
3301 NE 1st Ave (Midtown Bldg 4), #L207, Miami; 786.239.7380
Working from Starbucks is great for limited productivity and getting shot down by chicks in glasses, but what about limited productivity and getting shot down by chicks in bikinis? For an office offering just that, check out Brikolodge.
Brik’s a trapezoidal-pool-equipped, 1800sqft communal workspace divvied up into four sharable rooms, all with a breezy vibe and floor-to-ceiling windows, where you can buy office time by the day/month/year — if you haven’t outgrown it by then, you’d better find a workspace with no pool. Inside, you’ll find desks, high-speed wireless, a free wireless printer, lounge area with a cushy leather sofa and ottoman, full kitchen, shower (BYO soap/towel), a trifecta of sizable bathrooms that’re surely cleaner than yours, and use of the condo’s aforementioned 7th floor pool, with a view of Biscayne Bay to the east, and your pubes in your laptop keys to the South. For memberships, there’s the top-end “Resident”, which gets you your own desk, locker, the freedom to bring in file cabinets, plus a key for 24/7 access to the building, workspace, and pool (including weekends); the “Shared Space”, providing office use 3x/week from 9am to 6pm (or later if need be), plus pool use during those hours; and the “Drop In”, in which your first three days’re free, then it’s $15/day after that, with the same benefits of the “Shared Space” membership, plus the freedom to let your business wither and watch tons of Maury.
Brik also gives night classes on WordPress, and’ll soon offer workshops on Quickbooks, Joomla computer programming, accounting, and potential legal issues for small business startups. They also let you hold meetings in their conference room for a small fee, and the guys who run the joint’ll even pretend they work for you — the perfect setup for being falsely productive, and getting shot down by chicks in pant-suits.
Check it all out at Brikolodge.worpress.com
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Brikolodge’s lessons learned and plan for the future
We opened Brikolodge nearly 1 year ago (We = Ali Wadsworth & Eduardo Henriques). Upon our 1 year anniversary, we’d like to reflect on lessons learned and changes we plan to make for the future of our space. Some things we learned along the way:
1) Location is everything
2) Communicate openly and often with the community
3) Appeal to a broad range of users – don’t narrow your vision
4) Consider nothing impossible… try everything once
So… the location. When we first explored the possibility of opening a coworking space in Miami, we sought the advice of RefreshMiami members. All indictors pointed to the Design District or Coral Gables as desirable locations for a space. Since the market was considerably better last year than it is now, it was incredibly hard to find a large enough, cheap enough, cool enough, central enough location to meet our needs. After days and weeks of searching, we found Wynwood-Lofts. A meat packing industry-like building in the heart of the Wynwood Art District… ok, not quite Design District, but we took a leap. The space is great… it’s an open loft, 990 sqft of space, 12’ ceilings, plenty of free parking. Unfortunately, as the economy worsened, so did the crime in the area…. And right at the end of our lease term. What an opportunity to explore other parts of Miami.
The search continued… Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Downtown… and Midtown. We explored dozens of spaces that met our criteria and settled upon Midtown Miami (www.midtownmiami.com). A 1750 sq ft space (with nearly 700 additional sqft of balcony space), full kitchen, 3 full bathrooms, 2 private offices and plenty of shared space will be the future home of Brikolodge…. Which brings us to our next point – communicate openly (and often) with the community.
A week ago, Eduardo and I met with a few key stakeholders in the independent, small business, tech and freelance communities to discuss our collective vision for the future of coworking in Miami. We met with IndyHall, RefreshMiami, InfiniMedia, SeePR, Thinkking Media, among others. Brikolodge was a work-in-progress for the first several months of its existence. Eduardo and I jumped in feet first with a small rolodex of contacts and a big dream. This time around, we are reaching out to trustworthy friends and colleagues across multiple industries to help us re-define our vision, purpose and value to the community. Beyond one-on-one meetings, we vow to talk more… engage more… and share more.
As a start to our vision and re-birth, Brikolodge has established some promises… Brikologe – at all times – will be:
√ Cool and creative – not corporate and drab
√ A platform for all members to express, learn and share with one another
√ Accessible to all – monetarily and in location
√ Open – to pretty much anything within reason
√ Partners in the ventures of all visitors
√ Resources for new projects, meetups, friends, restaurants, experts…
These promises apply to all coworkers… not just marketers, website developers, and designer but also artisans, poets, spiritual individuals, among other entrepreneurs. There is so much we can learn from cross-discipline colleagues, further extending the resources we have within our reach. Our vision is to appeal to and enable the inner coworker in all of us.
Finally, one of the most important things Eduardo and I learned as a part of this process was to try everything (within reason)… Brikolodge has been home to fully nude models and artists, sculptures and artwork for gallery showings, meditation and healing sessions, wine tastings and cooking deomstrations… These are just a few of the things we have hosted at Brikolodge and would like to continue. Any meet-up that you want to host that you think will benefit at least one other person… we’re open to trying!
Stay tuned for the next steps Brikolodge takes in its rebirth… The next 30 days will be intense!
Twitter: @CoworkingMiami
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Sharing Your Office Space
MIAMI (CBS4) ― A new trend is catching on in South Florida that has small businesses sharing more than just ideas. They are sharing office space. “Yeah, he loves it, ” said Scott Cunningham of his dog, Auto, who comes to work with him.
Cunningham told CBS4’s Jorge Estevez that his co-workers get along with his dog which is a great advantage to working at Brikolodge, A “co-working” space in the Wynwood section of Miami. “I thrive on activity. I like there to be background noise,” said Cunningham.
And there is plenty of activity with all the different personalities and professionals that share an office.
“It’s a great space, a cool concept, and very economical,” said Mark Kirby, a painter. “A part of being eco-conscience is being smarter so we pull our resources together and here we are,” said Beco Byers, an eco friendly Event Planner. “I am really excited about that they are able to come here as well,” said Josefina Montilla, an art teacher who brings culture to students across Miami Dade.
“Start up companies are really expensive to run and here you can do it and share the cost,” said Jordan Nassar, who helps fellow members of the blind community find jobs. A couple brought the cost cutting concept to Miami and created Brikolode, a place in the Wynwood art district in Miami where for less than 150 dollars a month you can share desk space and all the amenities of big fancy office.
“People would rather go to a coffee shop and connect on the internet but here we create an environment for them to do it,” said Eduardo Henriques, who started the office sharing concept. The concept is working so well and still growing, the owners are thinking of adding a conference room.
Reporting | Jorge Estevez (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
Check this article directly at Jorge’s page at:
http://cbs4.com/local/office.sharing.work.2.840037.html
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Best Place to Meet Intelligent Men
Brikolodge Coworking Community
Check this article directly at Miami New Times’ page at:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/bestof/2008/award/best-place-to-meet-intelligent-men-1006251/
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Home Box Office?
Memo to: Dan
Re: Working from home
Your co-workers think your need to open the fridge six times before deciding on Mini-Wheats is distracting. Also, you’ve been wearing those pajamas for six days.
Memo to: Anna
You read your e-mails out loud.
Memo to: Dan
Perhaps one of us (you) should work at Brikolodge. The newly open shared office space straddles a happy medium between office environment and bohemian atmosphere. The spacious Wynwood loft has desks and chairs, secure Wi-Fi, a conference room, printers and scanners, a communal kitchen, and, most importantly, a reason to leave the apartment and commune with the outside world.
Membership has three levels: your own personal desk (on a monthly basis), shared space (three days a week), or day passes.
Memo to: Anna
What about my midday swim?
Memo to: Dan
They have a rooftop pool. But might I suggest showering first?
Brikolodge, Wynwood Lofts, 250 Northwest 23rd Street, ste. 204 (305-576-0181 or brikolodge.org).
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