WeWork celebrated the opening of its fourth Atlanta location in the Terminus building in Buckhead on Wednesday---a milemarker for WeWork's plan to supply the city with 15-20 locations overall by 2020.
Visitors, including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, packed into the new coworking space on the seventh floor of the Terminus building for a ribbon cutting ceremony, light refreshments and a tour of the new facility. WeWork representatives estimated there were about 250 guests at the event.
"We’re super excited about this space, and I think if you’ve been in all the WeWorks in Atlanta and the globe, you can see we try to bring a little bit of characteristics, and uniqueness to the space," Bobby Condon, WeWork general manager for the southeast, said.
The office is equipped with nearly 900 desks and a unique 30+ executive classroom, along with all the amenities of every WeWork, Condon said. A few notable new tenants include Twilio, Deputy and Mercedes-Benz' innovation lab, Lab 1886.
"I would try to ask anyone to find better views of downtown better than what we have," he said.
But other WeWork locations are just on the horizon. Condon said the company has doubled in size with its Atlanta presence in the past year and will open a fifth WeWork office in the first quarter of 2019 in Tech Square. WeWork's new locations are just part of a larger coworking trend happening across the city.
"I think there’s a shift in the way that people are thinking about working and how they want to work. We’ve been in this space for over eight years now, and we’re very comfortable here, being a thought leader in the space," he said. "We see that regardless of the industry, regardless of the size of the company. They’re feeding off the culture, the energy and the community that we’re providing."
As WeWork continues to grow its presence in Atlanta, Condon said there's been demand from enterprises looking at the city as an expansion area and a desire to join the coworking space.
"The city of Atlanta is really hitting on all the cylinders from leading the charge for women in entrepreneurship, cybersecurity in the client services space, the film industry, and there’s so much going on, and I think that’s a testament to the civic leaders," he said. "Having a state that’s been the best state to do business in the last five years running obviously is an indicator of what’s growing internally in the city and then also what’s being pushed out and growing regionally and globally."
Check out pictures of the space below.
