A new venture in Newaygo could be an impressive economic driver,
attracting knowledge workers to the small town through the construction
of a state-of-the-art remote work center. The facility will combine
incubator space, shared offices and retail in the heart of downtown.
According to excerpts from the story:
None of the $15 million West Michigan
received in a 2006 federal WIRED grant is going into a new business
center but the regional collaboration is the inspiration for this
community's latest development. WIRED — a regional
effort to help create a modern workforce development system in West
Michigan — had a specific group exploring the concept of the "office of
the future."
As part of that multi-county conversation,
Newaygo officials took the idea and ran with it. The result was the
unveiling Friday of The Stream Community Business Center in downtown
Newaygo. WIRED brought Charles Grantham, a sociologist with Work Design
Collaborative LLC and Jim Ware, a social psychologist and former
instructor at the Harvard School of Business, to West Michigan in 2007
to introduce the concept of a "remote work center."
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