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ccording to the 2018 Global Coworking Survey, a total of 1.7 million people worked in more than 19,000 co-working spaces by the end of 2018. Twenty-nine percent of those 19,000 spaces opened in the last year alone. Those statistics can only be good news for the growing number of local office spaces available to entrepreneurs and corporations who want to utilize shared spaces for their staff. For Dorothy Rogers-Bullis, longtime Saratoga resident and business owner, this is not new news. She understands how tough it can be for solo entrepreneurs and new businesses just starting out to juggle the dual demands of working on your business as well as in your business. When Dorothy decided to open a co-working space on Broadway, she seized the opportunity to create a work environment that successfully married form with function, technology with style. The result is a space that is both aesthetically pleasing and offers state of the art technology. Dorothy understands that the ‘working world,’ as she puts it, is not confined to an office with high walls where you never meet new people or see anyone else. Her goal was to create a space where people could work in their business and present a professional image to potential clients and customers.
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The 3,300 square-foot location at 462 Broadway represents the best of technologically-savvy office equipment and furnishings with the best of Saratoga architectural aesthetic. High ceilings, hardwood flooring and original exposed brick is evocative of the kind of prime office real estate one might find in Soho or London. For the increasing number of ‘solopreneurs’ migrating to Saratoga Springs, Dorothy solves their office needs and does it in a space that is both beautiful and serviceable. “After looking at vacant spaces all over the city, this location offered the perfect place for people to be their most productive,” says Dorothy. When she found the second-floor loft at 462 Broadway, she knew she’d hit pay dirt. The lease was signed in February 2018 and the newly renovated space opened in June. On any given day, Saratoga Coworks can accommodate as many as 35 professionals. Nikolas Goupil and his wife, Sarah Merkel, moved to Saratoga Springs from Plattsburgh about a year ago and they could not be happier with their arrangements. Sarah occupies an office just a few doors down from her husband. Her employer rents a private office for her on a yearly basis. Sarah was having a business meeting with a client, while Nickolas was discussing schematics with his team in Plattsburgh. Other business people were saratogaTODAYnewspaper.com