Downtown’s newest coworking space has the feel of an old-fashioned house with all the modern touches.
Haven Collective has opened the doors to its new 6,000-square-foot coworking space in the historic mansion at 620 E. Broad St. on the edge of downtown. Haven is leasing the building from owner Harrogate Associates.
It’s the company’s second location, joining its 7,700-square-foot space along Riverside Dr. Both locations offer a similar mix of conference space, gathering areas and events.
Melissa Blackburn and Danielle Lim invited the first guests into the mansion Wednesday. They said the new space offers more dedicated working space and room for “higher end” events that help the entrepreneurs who cowork there reach more professional goals.
“The building has so much established character, so our renovation was really just about adding some new touches without taking away from that character,” Blackburn said. “We really just wanted the space to speak for itself.”
The three-story mansion has desks for about 34 people in half a dozen suites, and most of the space is still available to be rented out. They said the Riverside Drive space had requests for larger suites that could accommodate more people, so the large offices are more prominent in the downtown space.
The building has been used as offices for some time, but the design was intended to honor its historic character. The mansion was built by Benjamin Huntington, whose brother founded Huntington Bank, in the 1870s, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
As is the case with its other location, Haven is offering both coworking and a range of social programs including fitness and child care intended for small business owners to connect with one another. Specifically, this location will have more room for the kinds of entrepreneurship-focused events and gatherings that small business owners and sole proprietorships can learn from to grow their business.
Haven’s memberships range from $99 for access to the space to $400 a month for a dedicated desk and $650 a month for a private office for one to five people.