Return to the Office, or Not? Why Landlords are partnering with flexible space operators to transition their vacant space to highly flexible coworking centers

In spite of many efforts to bring employees back to the office by prominent companies like Salesforce, Apple, Google, and Tesla, return to the corporate office has remained extremely low by historical standards, even though the fear of COVID is no longer a major issue. Commute time, gas prices, and quality of life are [...]

Pacific Workplaces Opens New Location in Downtown Las Vegas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2022 – Pacific Workplaces, the San Francisco-based flexible office provider, announced today that it closed a deal to lease the 6th floor of the most prominent class A building in downtown Las Vegas at 300 4th Street. The 16,636 square feet space will feature 58 private offices and team rooms, 50 [...]

2022-01-12T09:24:58-08:002022|Landlords, Press/Media|

What Differentiates Pacific Workplaces (PAC) from WeWork and other Coworking Operators?

Written by Laurent Dhollande, CEO 1)  PAC is profitable and has been for over 16 years Not many operators can say that they successfully weathered two recessions, while staying cash flow positive. PAC can. This is in part because many operators were founded after the last Great Recession. What will happen when the economy [...]

Should Office Building Owners & Asset Managers Increase or Decrease their Exposure to Coworking? And other questions raised after the 2019 WeWork IPO debacle.

Written by Laurent Dhollande, CEO Photo credit: Handout WeWork’s bad press since their IPO fiasco is raising new questions for commercial office asset owners & managers:  Is the WeWork story symptomatic of the Coworking industry? Should I take a pause before pursuing a coworking operator to move into my building? Is coworking [...]

Pacific Workplaces Opens Roseville Location in Greater Sacramento

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2020 – Pacific Workplaces is set to open its newest location in Roseville, California. As the largest city in Placer County, Roseville adjoins the Sacramento metropolitan area. This flexible office location will be known as ‘Pacific Workplaces Roseville.' Pacific Workplaces Roseville is located in the Douglas Corporate Center on [...]

2021-01-26T13:16:22-08:002020|Landlords, Press/Media|

Life After WeWork – Now What?

This article explores the after-effects of WeWork’s colossal pre-IPO collapse and its impact on landlords, investors, coworking operators, and WeWork SMBs and Enterprise members. The 2019 collapse of WeWork has been well documented. The reader can go to the end of the article for a summary of the chronology of events and key metrics.  [...]

Pacific Workplaces Opens New Flexible Office Location in Sacramento

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2019 – Coworking space provider Pacific Workplaces (PAC) expands its Northern California portfolio with its opening of a new 10,200 square-foot flexible office space location in Arden-Arcade at 3626 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Sacramento, California. The location will be known as ‘Pacific Workplaces Watt.' The San Francisco based shared office [...]

2021-01-26T13:17:37-08:002019|Landlords, Press/Media|

Pacific Workplaces Opens New Flexible Office Location in Marin County

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 6, 2019 - Pacific Workplaces (PAC) announced today that it is opening a new flexible office space location in Larkspur, California. The location will be known as ‘Pacific Workplaces Marin.' “Our members have been asking us to open a coworking location in Marin County for a long time,” says Pacific [...]

Transparency as a Cornerstone of Pacific Workplaces Pricing Policy

At Pacific Workplaces (Pac) transparency is a religion. We believe that everything we do can be shared, analyzed, benchmarked. There is no taboo, no forbidden domain. Nothing that can’t be explained. That principle applies to internal and external communications. It is a philosophical cornerstone of our company. A principle that helps us be thoughtful [...]

Pacific Workplaces Expands Portfolio with NextSpace Acquisition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2017- Santa Cruz, CA: Pacific Workplaces announced today that it has acquired various assets from NextSpace Coworking and Innovation Inc, including the NextSpace Brand and Website, and that it is taking over the management of several NextSpace coworking places, including the NextSpace flagship and historical location in [...]