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Thank you for your interest in CoCo. To help you with your story or blog post, we’ve assembled some information and helpful links below.

Essential facts

  • Locations: Minneapolis and St. Paul
  • CoCo was founded January 4, 2010 in our Lowertown St. Paul space.
  • Our Minneapolis space, on the former trading floor of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, opened in August 2011. This space has 20,000 sqare feet.
  • Founding partners: Don Ball (Twitter: donmball) and Kyle Coolbroth (Twitter: kcoolbroth)
  • According to Deskmag, there are an estimated 1,100 coworking spaces worldwide.
  • Coworking began in San Francisco. It is generally accepted within the coworking movement that the first coworking space was the Hat Factory (now closed), which was founded in 2005.
  • Please note that coworking is spelled without a hyphen. :-)

CoCo in the news (local, national and international media coverage that we have received.)

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