I'll be happy to fill out the survey and I think this is a great idea. However, I am looking to gauge interest for a space that is a lot more general in terms of class offerings, more crowdsourced in terms of topics and less of a work space. Good luck with your project!

Hi Folks,

Someone sent me this thread today so I wanted to reach out. Back in April I started the groundwork to bring a multi-disciplinary work space to an industrial building in JC, preferably near downtown. I've collected surveys from the community and have been speaking to some folks in real estate and in the government. I took a respite to find a business partner, and as of this week I am teaming up with a colleague to make this go faster.

We are going to start looking into forming an advisory board and go from there. In terms of model, 3rd Ward in Brooklyn is the closest template to that we want to do, however the disciplines will not be completely the same. We're interested in digital arts, filmmaking, 3D Printing as well as traditional craft and coworking.

We have a survey and a mailing list you can complete to let us know what types of things you'd want to have in a space as a member.

www.makergrove.com

Thanks. Let's see what happens.

I think so! I have both taught classes and taken classes at the Brainery and I love it.

My wife and her friend have been very interested in starting something like this in Jersey City.

contact me - hasanbc@gmail.com

they are very motivated to do something like this here. they want to do a meetup and get a group of people to start this off.

We have a great space here in JC:


http://grassrootscommunityspace.com/wp/


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Jersey City Art School runs donation based educational events open to the public. I went to one on neuroethics recently. If you pitch this idea to them as something that might have regular interest from the community, especially if you have speakers in mind, they'd probably be open to it.

The Brooklyn Brainery is a class space location in Prospect Heights that allows community members to teach random classes in just about anything to others. I am just curious as to whether or not people think this something JC could use, appreciate, sustain....etc. For all I know, there is already somewhere doing this now. Thoughts?

http://brooklynbrainery.com/