Day pass
$45
- Desk
- Open seating
- Meeting room hours
- —
- Guest passes
- —
- Workshops
- That day only
- Member directory
- —
- Demo night slot
- —
- Mail + 24/7 access
- —
hero · footage pending1.78:1
Most coworking spaces sell you a desk.We sell you the room.
Not open yet — we are taking founding applications now and fitting out through the autumn.
Corktown, Queen East. The 501 stops at the door.
299 Queen St E · Toronto ON
43.6554 -79.3648
OPENING DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Founding
50/50
places open
Next demo
THU SEP 3
Demo night
This week
0
workshops
At capacity
—
To be confirmed
State
Open · founding
Anyone may apply
Why the room
A desk is a commodity. The room is not.
You can rent a desk for two hundred dollars a month in forty buildings between here and Liberty Village, and it will be exactly as productive as your kitchen table.
What you cannot rent is a room where the person two seats over has already solved the thing you have been stuck on since Tuesday.
A Place To Work is five thousand square feet on Queen East filled with people who can say what they are building in one sentence. That is the product. The seat is just how you get access to it.
The mechanism
It works the way anything compounding works: slowly, then all at once, and only if you show up.
The space5,000 sqft · one floor
Five thousand square feet, one floor, nothing hidden.
Wood floors, white plaster, and a century of ductwork painted out overhead. Eight tables of eight, private rooms down one side, and a lounge that gets rearranged for demo night. The building is not the amenity — it is the container, and it is honest about that.
Footage pendingA continuous take moving across the floor plate, past the tables, the private rooms and the lounge.
floor1.78:1The floor plate
5,000 sqftFive thousand square feet on one floor. Wood worn smooth by whatever this room was before, white plaster, and the ductwork and columns painted out overhead. Nothing was added to make it look industrial and nothing was stripped to make it look raw.
The tables
64 seatsEight of them, eight seats each. You take a seat at a table rather than a cubicle with your name on it, which is the whole argument of the place made into furniture: the person across from you is the product.
Private rooms
4–5 roomsFour or five down the left-hand side as you come in, glass to the floor so a full room is visible from the floor — which is the point. The largest takes a conference table. Hours beyond your allowance come out of credits.
The lounge
modular seatingModular, so it is somewhere to sit on a Tuesday afternoon and seating for a room full of people on a Thursday night. It gets rearranged for demo night and put back the next morning.
The rest of it
24/7 accessThere is floor left over, and more work areas going into it. What those turn out to be is a question for the first fifty members rather than for us.
platetablesroomsloungerest
- sqft
- 5,000
- tables of eight
- 8
- seats at the tables
- 64
- private rooms
- 4–5
- streetcar at the door
- 501
- access
- 24/7
What you getFour tiers
Four ways in.
Prices are the prices. Meeting hours and guest passes reset monthly and do not roll over. Extra hours come out of your credit balance.
| Included | Day pass $45 — | Flex $195/mo — | Founding rate Resident $300/mo | Team from$300/seat — |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desk | Open seating | Open seating, 8 days/mo | Your desk, always | Private suite |
| Meeting room hours | — | 2/mo | 4/mo | 4/seat/mo |
| Guest passes | — | 1/mo | 2/mo | 2/seat/mo |
| Workshops | That day only | Included | Included | Included |
| Member directory | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Demo night slot | — | — | Included | Included |
| Mail + 24/7 access | — | — | Included | Included |
| When we open | Apply | Apply — founding | Talk to us |
Day pass
$45
Flex
$195/mo
- Desk
- Open seating, 8 days/mo
- Meeting room hours
- 2/mo
- Guest passes
- 1/mo
- Workshops
- Included
- Member directory
- Included
- Demo night slot
- —
- Mail + 24/7 access
- —
Founding rate
Resident
$300/mo
$395 after the first 50
- Desk
- Your desk, always
- Meeting room hours
- 4/mo
- Guest passes
- 2/mo
- Workshops
- Included
- Member directory
- Included
- Demo night slot
- Included
- Mail + 24/7 access
- Included
Team
from$300/seat
- Desk
- Private suite
- Meeting room hours
- 4/seat/mo
- Guest passes
- 2/seat/mo
- Workshops
- Included
- Member directory
- Included
- Demo night slot
- Included
- Mail + 24/7 access
- Included
Membership
- Open · founding rate — current50 of 50 places · $300/mo, locked for life
- Open · list rate$395/mo
- Referral onlyAt capacity · one member vouches for one applicant
The founding rate is locked for as long as you keep your membership. It is not a promotion and it does not come back.
Once the room is full, the only way in is that someone already in it vouches for you. That is not a marketing device — it is the mechanism that keeps the thing you are paying for intact.
What happens hereDemo night · workshops · directory · credits
The mechanics of compounding.
None of this is an amenity. Each one is a mechanism for turning a room full of strangers into people who are useful to each other, which is the only thing that makes a membership worth renewing.
Demo night
Weekly · Thursdays 19:00Five minutes each, working software only, no slides. Members and one guest apiece. The rule against slides is the whole format: it filters for people who have built the thing rather than described it.
Workshops
Member-taughtWhatever a member actually knows well enough to teach. Rate limiting. Cap tables. Getting a hardware product through certification in Canada. Teaching one earns credits, which is how we keep the calendar full without hiring anyone to fill it.
The directory
Members onlyEveryone lists what they are building and one line under "what I need". The second field is the one that does the work — it turns a list of names into a set of open requests that someone in the room can usually close.
Guest passes
1–2 per monthBring someone in for the day. Most applications worth accepting come from people who sat here first and decided they wanted back in.
What members need
Members
Members
Members
Every member lists one line under “what I need”. We are not going to invent three of them to fill this space — it goes live when there are real ones.
Credits
Earned in the room, spent in the roomEarn
- Teach a workshop
- +40
- Refer a member who joins
- +60
- Answer a directory request
- +15
- Demo on demo night
- +10
- Monthly, Resident and Team
- +20
Spend
- Extra meeting room hour
- 10
- Extra guest pass
- 15
- Private suite for a day
- 60
- Locker, per month
- 20
- Reserved seat at a table
- 5
Credits do not expire while your membership is active and they are not transferable. They buy the things the room pays for; they do not buy your way past the door.
Your balanceMembers
WhereCorktown · Queen East
299 Queen St E.
Corktown, at the east end of downtown. The Distillery is thirteen minutes on foot, St. Lawrence Market fourteen, Corktown Common ten. The 501 stops at the door and runs west through downtown and east into Leslieville, which is the short answer to how anyone gets here.
299 Queen St E, Toronto ON M5A 1S7
Transit
- 501 Queen●
- at the door · downtown west, Leslieville east
- 504 King
- 6 min south · King East and the Distillery
- 65 Parliament
- one block east · north to Cabbagetown
On foot
- George Brown, St. James campus
- 8 min
- Corktown Common
- 10 min
- Distillery District
- 13 min
- St. Lawrence Market
- 14 min
Around here
- ROQ City
- New residential building nearby
Queen station is a long walk west of here, so we do not claim it. The streetcar is the thing that actually gets you to the door — a straight line from the core, from King East, and from the east end.
Apply50 founding places open
Tell us what you are building.
One line is enough. It is the only field on this form we read closely, because it is the only one that tells us whether the room gets better with you in it.
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