Last night was the first open house for Indoor Playground, the new coworking office space that’s opening up on Richmond in the next month or so. Actually, I’m not sure that the Indoor Playground is going to have a slide, though that would be cool. It does look like it will have lots of other good stuff, particularly a really nice space and interesting people doing interesting stuff.

I’ve been waiting and hoping for a coworking space to happen in Toronto for pretty much the whole year I have been Hogtown Consulting, working from my home office. Then two come along at once.

As timing works out, I’m very close to signing a lease on some office space in the soon to expand Centre for Social Innovation at 215 Spadina, just around the corner from Indoor Playground. So really I don’t need any more office space right now. But, I really love the idea of Indoor Playground, so I’m considering signing up for one of their very reasonable usage plans, perhaps off-peak plus one day a week, to be part of that community.

If the conversations I was in on at the open house were anything to judge by, this is going to be a really cool space to work in. Smart, engaged and at least slightly nerdy people who want to get stuff done. Plus the space is great, Jane Jacobs would approve I think (”Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings”).