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Better Together

Freelancers and entrepreneurs seeking to shape ideas and share equipment often turn to coworking spaces. These facilities offer a trendy environment and amenities (bottomless coffee!) to their members, who in turn report increased productivity and a sense of community. So it’s no wonder that dozens of these businesses are thriving in Houston, capitalizing on our population of innovators. Having reached critical mass in Downtown and EaDo, the trend is expanding to the northern suburbs and out west toward the Energy Corridor. Here’s how Houston is coworking it out.

THE ANNEX An EaDo biz caters to artists and designers.

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Innovation Nation

Cultivating a creative community and pushing equitable innovation, Roland von Kurnatowski’s decade-old TXRX Labs is on the grow.

Daniel Ortiz

About a decade ago, Roland von Kurnatowski, now 37, noticed a false divide in Houston’s creative community, one that was holding the city back. “There’s the fine arts,” he explains, “and then there’s fabrication, mainly in terms of oil-field work.” Other cities, like New Orleans, seem to recognize the blurred line between artistic creating and technical innovating more readily than H-Town does, he says. “The word innovation is used too narrowly. People think of Amazon or Uber.

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A Cut Above

An ambitious young entrepreneur transforms an EaDo warehouse into a one-stop-men’s-shop, proffering high-end haircuts and custom suiting for all.

Daniel Ortiz
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Jason Gourd, 23, stands proudly in a 1930s-era warehouse in EaDo, just across from 8th Wonder and a block from the GRB, inside what will soon be Sorek, his hybrid barbershop-clothing-boutique concept. He points out the exposed brick walls and steel beams. “We aren’t going for a Prada aesthetic,” he says. “It’s going to be accessible.”

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