If you had 1000 sq feet of cheap, well-located industrial workspace in a fairly dense urban area, what equipment would you put in and what would you do?
Assume you can’t be in the food/dark-kitchen business and that supplies you need from China/Amazon continue to flow smoothly.
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1000 sq ft is not much. Just about the same size as a 2br apartment. Just laid out more openly. Think 20x45 open rectangle space plus a 5x10 bathroom and a 5x10 small office/den with a mini fridge and microwave.
A small retail store basically.
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I imagine this as taking an ordinary small store on Main St. and at most ripping up weak flooring, replacing with well-leveled concrete, taking out any low false ceiling, and improving the ventilation somehow. Add natural light if possible, and some minimal soundproofing maybe.
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What about converting commercial to affordable residential real estate with short to mid-term leases? Or at least multi-use. It'd be a way to incentivize people to stay in business centers and help restart the economy.
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I've always thought it would be fun to do a live talk show over the Internet, but with a local level focus.
Like imagine "The Late Show" but for a city... and all real fast and loose and unedited
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Ongoing assembly line for local products where people can show up for a 3 hour shift. My very weird experimental catch is: you can choose if you want to pay (assembly line as ticketed meditative retreat) or get paid (assembly line as a job)—but you don’t reveal your choice.
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I do something like this, although around 4000-5000sqf. Home/workshop/YouTube studio. Zoning and regulation play a big role- I'd love to have a Hardware Hacker B&B for people here doing hardware startups- but no way from a regulatory perspective to do it.
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I’d build sex robots. So a HP Multijet Fusion printer, an electrospinner, and various other tools to start. Then a coding space to build the companion app, and a dedicated ML machine for training/testing models. Also a wet lab for synth-bio.
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