Gravitate Coworking is opening a second coworking space in Windsor Heights, the company announced last week. The new location, called Gravitate Windsor Heights, is located at 6611 University Ave., Suite 200. Gravitate Midtown, the current location in Windsor Heights located across the intersection of University Avenue and 66th Street, will…
Gravitate Coworking founder Geoff Wood reflects on a decade in business Many in Des Moines and Iowa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem will know of Gravitate Coworking and its founder Geoff Wood. But to understand how it started 10 years ago requires stepping back to some key developments in the early days of Des Moines’…
Like nearly all offices, Gravitate Coworking was quiet throughout 2020 as many worked from home. While its two locations never closed last year and precautions were in place, visitors to the space remained slim. But since the vaccine for COVID-19 became available, numbers have steadily returned to normal levels, and…
Wednesday morning felt like a celebration of sorts as visitors swept into Gravitate Coworking’s downtown location. 1 Million Cups welcomed back visitors to the first in-person event since March 2020, when organizers shut the doors at the Science Center of Iowa’s theater for the last time. Pi515 founder and director…
Gravitate Coworking is expanding to two new communities. The timing, nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, is unexpected, Gravitate owner Geoff Wood said. But opportunity knocked to set the coworking space up for the post-COVID world in Jefferson and Cedar Falls. “On the one hand, we’re in survivability mode…
Gravitate Coworking is moving its Valley Junction location to Windsor Heights. Now renamed Gravitate Midtown, the coworking space will open on Sept. 1 at 6500 University Avenue, the company announced in a blog post. The move comes after West Des Moines City Council voted to end a building lease agreement…
The West Des Moines City Council is reviewing a building lease in Valley Junction that houses the West Des Moines Business Incubator and Gravitate Coworking after a council workshop on Monday night. The West Des Moines Business Incubator leases a Valley Junction building from the city for $1 a year,…