In a time when many companies are still trying to figure out how to get employees to get back into the office, the coworking brand Kiln is offering a solution: make the office somewhere people actually want to be.
Kiln focuses on providing hospitality-driven office space, where amenities and experience play an important role in defining the work environment. It operates in the coworking market. For the uninitiated, coworking refers to shared office spaces where individuals or small firms can rent a combination of private offices, communal work areas, and meeting rooms.
Based in Utah, Kiln operates more than 20 locations. Most of them are in the western United States, but the brand just made its North Texas debut with a new location in Preston Hollow, and it’s got another on the way in Plano.
The Preston Hollow location is situated in The Hill shopping center off North Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane, occupying around 23,000 square feet of second-floor space. Kiln’s Plano operation, expected to open late this year, will be a 28,000-square-foot space at The Shops at Legacy North.
Flight-to-quality has been animating the office market for a while now, but that kind of movement tends to lend itself to firms with a sizable footprint. Smaller operations, however, can still get in on the trend with high-end coworking spaces like Kiln’s.
“People need space to work, but they want to work in an environment that lifts them, inspires them, helps them recruit and retain talent, gives them a great place to collaborate,” said Kiln CEO Arian Lewis. “It’s no longer about space, it’s really about experience.”…