Entrepreneurs / Small Business  February 12, 2016

Goosetail Labs moving to Louisville, launching coworking space

LOUISVILLE — The owner of Boulder web-development firm Goosetail Labs is migrating his business to Louisville and launching a new coworking space along with it.

Goosetail Spaces will be a 7,000-square-foot coworking space at 197 S. 104th St., in the Colorado Technology Center, with opening day slated for March 1.

Goosetail Labs CEO and founder Pete Fredricks said his company’s current office at 1920 13th St., despite being in downtown Boulder, had the feeling of being a bit closed off from the outside world. His hope in opening Goosetail Spaces is to create a place with a sense of community, not only for his own business, but also entrepreneurs and telecommuters who haven’t graduated into space of their own yet. He’s hopeful that it will also be attractive for people living in the eastern part of the county who commute into Boulder now.

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“Our focus is more on making the community more than it is on making (Goosetail Spaces) a profit setter,” Fredricks said.

Fredricks said that while coworking spaces have sprouted up all over Boulder and Denver, he feels it’s still a niche with room to grow along the U.S. 36 corridor. Goosetail Spaces will be set between Office Evolution at 357 S. McCaslin Blvd. in Louisville and Confluence, which opened last year in downtown Lafayette.

Fredricks’ own four-person company will move into their new space at the same time Goosetail Spaces open.

The new coworking space, Fredricks said, is largely already built out the way he wanted it because it is a former showroom for office-furniture company Citron Workspaces. He said startup costs have been “around $100,000,” including things such as deposits, rent, furniture and marketing.

Goosetail Spaces will include three private offices, 20 to 25 designated work stations and 30 “floating” desks that members may use, but not exclusively. There is also a conference room with seating for 14 and another smaller conference room.

There will be three different membership levels ranging from $199 to $599 per month, as well as a daily drop-in rate. Fredricks, a web developer and engineer who started Goosetail Labs two years ago, said he’s got more than 15 members signed up so far for the coworking space.

LOUISVILLE — The owner of Boulder web-development firm Goosetail Labs is migrating his business to Louisville and launching a new coworking space along with it.

Goosetail Spaces will be a 7,000-square-foot coworking space at 197 S. 104th St., in the Colorado Technology Center, with opening day slated for March 1.

Goosetail Labs CEO and founder Pete Fredricks said his company’s current office at 1920 13th St., despite being in downtown Boulder, had the feeling of being a bit closed off from the outside world. His hope in opening Goosetail Spaces is to create a place with a sense of community, not only…

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