Our Little Town

When we take a phone order, quite often the first question we get is”where are you guys located?.”  Usually, that’s because the customer wants some idea of how quickly they can receive their order.

We are proud to tell them “Chapel Hill, NC” which more often than not (especially this time of year) leads to some sort of discussion about college basketball.  It’s great to live in the center of the college basketball universe with UNC and Duke just a stone’s throw away.

Yesterday, NPR’s Morning Edition ran a story on their Marketplace program that put another part of our community on the map.

Before we moved to Chapel Hill, we spent 20 years in the next-door-neighbor town of Carrboro.  It was a great place to work, but we outgrew our space.

Marketplace focused on a very interesting business venture called Carrboro Creative Coworking.  This new venture is taking advantage of Carrboro’s unique mix of technology workers, web developers, college students, and artists. They are creating a community environment focused on a physical place where those who need reliable office space and the traditional support systems  in an office can congregate.  They then make this space available in smaller increments of time at a greatly reduced cost. The idea of having (and paying for )something expensive like a copier or a conference room only when needed is a great concept.  Using these resources in an environment used by like-minded entrepeneurs makes the idea even greater.

Providing support for a new class of productive and creative worker that CCC refers to as “mobile workers” is a phenomenon that is popping up all over the country and Carrboro is uniquely suited for a business that provides this sort of service.

While we are not mobile workers, we do need a way to stay connected with cutting edge thinking in our community and I look forward to paying a visit.

Maybe best of all (at least in Carrboro), they even have a parking lot.

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