New flexible working space coming soon to Hastings Town Centre
Freedom Works is officially moving into the upper floors of the old Debenhams building in Hastings Town Centre.
The company has set up several similar spaces across the South East which offer a great space for community-focused collaborative workspaces. The new space will provide private offices, open plan workspace, and meeting rooms - encouraging collaboration, and rolling out to Freedom Work’s existing membership structures.
The central location in the Town Centre will aim to support businesses to grow and enable people to be able to work near to where they live in an office-style space.
COVID-19 has accelerated the change in work patterns and the use and necessity of the traditional open office workplace is set to decline. This development is an exciting opportunity for small businesses, entrepreneurs or freelancers who want, or miss, that collaborative office feel.
A significant part of our economy is small businesses and entrepreneurs who are self-employed. The creation of new, flexible workspaces will provide access to resources so that they can continue to run / grow their businesses in the environment that many start-ups and SMEs desire.
The space will take up 3 floors (15,000sqft) of the building, and will contain:
24 offices
12 dedicated desks for freelancers
A hotdesking zone
3 bookable meeting rooms
https://www.hastingstowndeal.co.uk/enterprise-employment-infrastructure
Jon Trigg, founder and managing director of Freedom Works, said:
‘We’re really proud to be part of an initiative which is repurposing an iconic town centre building to create offices and workspace local businesses will be proud to call home.
Our ambition is to create a home for 100+ businesses and freelancers in Hastings, creating a community where peer support enhances the ability for a business to succeed and grow. We will also work with local networking groups and agencies to support local business.
Having set up a number of workspace in other Sussex coastal communities - we’re extremely excited about creating this much needed employment space. But, to do so in such an iconic building which will add huge value to the town centre of Hastings makes this project even more special. Our focus now is to recruit businesses and ensure we can make this commercially sustainable as quickly as we can.
Our investment into Hastings is very much based on our experience within other coastal communities and the growth in demand we have witnessed in flexible workspaces in Sussex towns, since the pandemic. We have high hopes for Hastings and it's potential, and having been here on the ground starting the project, the levels of interest already indicate the need for such workspace.”
This project is supported by Hastings Town Deal #Towns Fund #MakeItInHastings.
