Co-working spaces have sprouted across the state in recent years, allowing budding entrepreneurs to share office space, intelligence and rent costs, with other likeminded individuals.
Hartford recently saw the launch a social enterprise incubator and co-working space founded by Kate Emery’s nonprofit group reSET.
But the concept in Connecticut really got its start in New Haven, and now that city’s most well-known co-working space is expanding.
The Grove, which was founded in 2010 by Slate Ballard and has grown from three members to over 150 freelancers, startups, nonprofits and social entrepreneurs, is adding 4,000 square feet by bringing together its current 760 Chapel St. space with a neighboring building at 758 Chapel St.
The expansion will create additional co-working and meeting rooms and be integrated with a new coffee shop called the Happiness Lab, founded by Vishal Patel.
Patel and The Grove are running a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to complete and outfit the shop.
