Remote workers
You have a job somewhere else and a life here. You want a door to close and people to say hello to.
An idea for Xenia, Ohio
Xenia Studio
A place to do your best work, right here in Xenia.
A shared workspace for the people who already work in town and have nowhere in town to do it. It is an idea for now. Tell us if you want it, and what it would need to be.
Idea stage. Nothing is open and nothing is priced.
Why here
Working in Xenia usually means working alone.
If your job lives on a laptop, you have two choices in Xenia today: the kitchen table, or the drive to Dayton. The kitchen table is free and quiet until it isn't. The drive takes a chunk of your day and spends your money in another town.
A good shared workspace in Xenia would give remote workers, freelancers, small teams and students a place to focus, and other people to say good morning to, without leaving town. More of the workday would happen here, which is good for the people who live here and for the businesses downtown.
- Today The kitchen table Free, and shared with the dishes.
- Today The drive to Dayton Real desks, in somebody else's town.
- Could be A desk in Xenia Walk or bike there. Be home for dinner.
What it could have
What we're thinking about
None of this is decided. These are the things we keep coming back to, and what people tell us on the signup form will change the list.
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Drop-in desks
A desk you could use whenever you needed one, with no commitment.
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Dedicated desks
A desk that would be yours, with your monitor left where you put it.
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Private offices or phone booths
A few small rooms would cover calls and heads-down days.
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A meeting room
A room where you could meet a client or gather a small team around one table.
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Fast internet
Fast enough that nobody would ever think about it.
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Good coffee
Coffee worth walking over for, made by someone who cares about it.
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Small events
Founder breakfasts and skill-share nights now and then, open to the town.
A sketch, not a plan. There is no room yet to draw.
Who it's for
People who already work here.
Freelancers and makers
Designers, writers, developers, bookkeepers. Work that fits in a bag, carried by someone tired of the coffee shop.
Small businesses
Two or three people who have outgrown the spare bedroom but are not ready for a lease.
Students and side projects
A quiet table after class, or a place to build the thing you keep talking about.
Help shape it
Before we pick a room, we're picking brains.
We are collecting names before we collect anything else. When you sign up we ask two optional questions: how you would use the space, and what matters most to you. Those answers decide what gets built first, or whether it gets built at all.
We'll only write when there is something real to say, and one click takes you off the list.
The two questions on the form
How would you use it?
- A few days a week
- Every day
- Occasional drop-in
- Meeting room only
- Events only
What matters most?
- A quiet desk
- A private office
- Meeting space
- Community
- Price