We have completed most of this task through New Stadium in Toronto at 83 Walnut Avenue.
If you have been to New Stadium, it might be interesting for you to read the quoted post. Everything starts out as a thought.
New Stadium has been validating how many root causes can be solved simply by consistently providing a well run space that can support collaboration, early ideas, communities, and vision.
This will become more obvious to everyone when we share new incubator mechanics we have been developing behind the scenes.
The idea of just providing space is oddly simple when you think about the complex ways in which people describe the problems in the Canadian ecosystem.
But it is working and will continue to work.
We are already starting to see startups look for space and sign leases based on proximity to New Stadium.
We are on the ground level in the heart of the problem set. You would not believe what we see day to day. You would not believe the range of conversations we have. Things are changing a lot in this ecosystem.
This is core infrastructure.
The next step is kind of a black swan event that needs to happen.
We need to, some how, secure a building in Toronto over the long term that becomes the beginning of a technology campus.
New can operate this building.
Right now, New covers the costs of New Stadium, but we need a way to entirely remove the problem of "space" from anyone within the orbit of increasing the technical output in Canada.
If you can help, I would love to chat.
yeah sure
@tobi, help us establish a space in the west end of toronto that has the following affordances:
- seamless support of programming for 30 - 200 people
- access to advanced tools for rapid output
- support for deep work, small team collaboration, or larger scale demos and lectures
- support for a hackathon based environment every weekend
- the space can be entirely open and reconfigured depending on its current functional purpose, or the space could be partitioned in advance to enable these affordances
hope is by creating a space with these affordances, which don't currently exist, we might be able to create a positive cascading effect in the surrounding area, and within the city's technical and creative ecosystems.