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Visitors at the first floor main entry are greeted by a “valley” of custom-made, sit-stand-lean workstations resembling icebergs, dyed terrazzo flooring and a massive 3D themed mural by renowned Oakland artist Sean Griffin. The Port Workspaces - Kaiser Campus renovation features a variety of visually stunning new design features. According to Deborah Boyer, executive vice president of The Swig Company, discussions with several parties about utilizing the previously unused mall space have occurred over the years but the collaboration with Port Workspaces brought the most creative and innovative adaptive reuse opportunity. As retail trends shifted, the tenant population of the mall dwindled and much of the three-story mall space, particularly space without exposure to the street, remained vacant. In later years, the mall was converted to a multi-tenant building and other retailers, including Joseph Magnin, Grodin’s, Casual Corner and Nesbitt’s, came and went. When Kaiser Center was first occupied in the early 1960’s as the headquarters of Henry J Kaiser’s industrial empire, the mall housed a department store, the White House. Recognizing and supporting underrepresented young entrepreneurs.The third location for Oakland-born Port Workspaces, the Kaiser Campus occupies 60,000 square feet in Kaiser Center’s former mall area, a portion of the one million square foot property which itself has had a storied history. Primarily serving early-stage tech entrepreneurs with an emphasis on servings founders from underrepresented groupsĪ co-working space and seed fund that houses and invests in entrepreneurs building software-enabled solutions for the clean energy industry The Center for Electronic Hardware Development Incubation of worker-owned food enterprises, such as pop-up restaurants, catering businesses and food companiesĬo-lab space to unleash the power of the Modern Inventor

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Teaching business to artists, empowering them as entrepreneursĬo-working kitchen & incubator with rotating culinary concepts plus a public cafe & event spaceĪ teaching culinary commercial kitchen and job training café, including food trucks and a business incubator, with co-working space and office suites for nonprofits and small businessesĪn incubator commercial kitchen for startup food businesses to cook and grow inĪ co-working commercial kitchen for food businesses of all scales

Office space, coworking and meeting rooms to support any businessĪ hackerspace & creative community that has open membership, and is non-hierarchical and collaborativeįour floors of private offices, dedicated desks, and beautiful common areas perfect for businesses in a range of industries-from startups and nonprofits to law firms and creative agenciesĪ coworking space specifically for the architecture, engineering and construction industriesĬoworking, live/work suites, event and meeting spacesĬo-Working for Creative Professionals: Artist, Photographers and Digital Media Whether you crave quiet or thrive on creative, collaborative energy, want historic brick and beam or modern office elegance, the Port Workspaces offers four convenient locations, each with its own distinct character, in three great Oakland neighborhoods.ĭay or virtual offices plus meeting rooms Meeting rooms, shared office space and coworking Offering event space, meeting spaces, coworking, offices and live/work suites

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