Holly Tate, senior vice president at software company Leadr, toured SheSpace, a women-focused Houston coworking office, in a hard hat when it was only a shell, jumping at the chance to become the first member to sign a lease. Thirteen months later, she occupies a small, walled office alongside other workers and companies, most of them female-owned, in a space outfitted with pink, orange and lime green décor, small conference rooms named after prominent women in history like Ida B. Wells and Frida Kahlo, a sizable lactation room positioned near the front door, and books by Houston women displayed for sale. "I work remotely, and so having a community of like-minded women, I thought, was really important to me," Tate said. "[I was] just loving the vision and what they were trying to do to create a space for women to be supported. I was all-in on that." 
SheSpace doesn’t look like a typical coworking space, let alone a typical office, and founder Stephanie Tsuru did her research on competitors before launching her vision. Her interest lay more in creating a community space for women than copying larger companies like WeWork.A door at…  Read the full story here. | | |
