Learn to Love Your Coworker

BUILDING THE COMMUNITY WITH TIME.

Once the space was there, Cody and Natalie decided to take time to build their community. After all, they started Bat Haus to have a place for freelancers to work and wanted to gradually find the right fit for the space. Rather than spreading the word everywhere, they opted for word-of-mouth.

They started to grow the community using their own networks. Cody, for instance, is the organiser of the Writer’s meetup. He started to host his meetups at Bat Haus, not to sell writers the space but rather to show them what a coworking space can be. Over time, the community became bigger and bigger, with people from various backgrounds and regions of the world.

During our time at Bat Haus, we really felt like part of a big family. Natalie and Cody welcome us so warmly and we had the pleasure to attend a community event – wine drinking! How cool. They also invited us for their Halloween party, which we loved attending. We met coworkers from France, Spain, Canada who all told us the same about Bat Haus: there is this community spirit floating around that no other space in town has.

NOT JUST A COWORKING SPACE.

But Bat Haus is not only a coworking space, it’s also a place to celebrate life. The space layout makes it easy and flexible to transform into anything. The ground floor is a huge open plan with a little garden at the back. Climbing up the stairs, there is a room with a door that can be closed where people can mingle or do phone calls without disturbing the rest of the coworkers.

Over the weekends, Bat Haus has a second life. It becomes an event venue for weddings, anniversaries, dinners, baby showers and much more. Until our time at Bat Haus, the only space with Weddings was in Oslo at 657. Considering how expensive and difficult to get wedding venues are, having a coworking space that can be personalised and transformed into your dream venue makes it a lot easier.

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We feel fortunate our paths met the one of Natalie and Cody. We loved our time at Bat Haus and highly recommend anyone to go and visit them if you are in Brooklyn. Ending this article with a selfie that is as funny as our time at Bat Haus.

Coworkies, Bat Haus, New York