Wow! We grew AGAIN!

We are now upgrading to a new hackerspace!

31 W. Ewing St.  Suite #200(we have an entire floor!).  2642sqft.  Yes, that's 2600 + 42 square feet.  Isn't that just the meaning of life?

The location is almost three times larger than our current one.  Somehow, it's not on Google Street View :P.  Pictures are better than words:

We have a couple rooms like the one above.  This one will be the A/V room for movies, Dungeons and Dragons, Anime Night, etc.  We'll keep our loud and messy entertainment here.  The other room is an equal size and on the opposite side of the building.  It will be used for computer lab.  It should be quiet and clean.

This is the main lobby.  This is where we will welcome people and socialize. We have 9 rooms.  Each room is the size of our old tiny hackerspace on Helena Ave.  We have our own doors, so we can directly control access.  This will also help with membership dues.  /me cackles.

Bathroom is not ADA compliant... but our wheelchaired member will be fine.

View of the secondary parking lot from the hydroponics corridor.  We like to push the limits of space-age agriculture.

We have seven parking spaces up top.  Three nearest the door will be handicap only.  The yard is ours as well as a two terrace garden(soon to be three terraces).  This yard is where we are going to stage another larger and not-yet-ready-to-publicize project.

When can we move in?  Well... I had some minor negotiations with the lease, but I've finally signed it yesterday.  The land owners are very considerate and they worked with me on each point.  I think we got almost everything we wanted.  I didn't get Air Conditioning in the lease because we were running out of time.  That's a later discussion.  August will get hot for us... but that will be survivable until next year when we re-negotiate.

We will have keys in hand by Tuesday.  We have 2/3rds of our stuff in boxes or bins.  We are almost ready to move!  We just need the key :P.

We have grown from a basement with Christmas lights:

September-ish 2010

To a little room in the back of a computer shop:

To a conference room in a bank:

To our new location described above!