We have 4 meeting rooms here at Outlet Coworking in Midtown Sacramento that are available for our members and non-members alike. There can be many different reasons you may need to book one of our meeting rooms. Here are a few examples-

• the first opportunity you have to close a deal
• an introduction to meet (and impress) a potential client
• an introduction to a team you’ll be managing or working with
• a crucial block of time where decisions must be made
• a time-sensitive session where work must get done

If you’re facilitating a meeting, you have to decide what materials you need, what you want to pitch, who is attending, and then coordinate multiple schedules and calendars, possibly across distant locations. With all these things to worry about, you don’t need to add tools and environment to the list. We can take care of that for you! Our rooms come stocked with whiteboards, wifi, flat screen TVs with presentation capabilities, HDMI cables, and all the outlets you could ask for! We also have Camellia Coffee Roasters coffee, snacks and sparkling waters in the kitchen available for you and your guests. You can check availability and make bookings through our website or through the app – or just call us and we can take care of it for you!

Here is what people are saying about our meeting rooms-

“Very helpful and accommodating staff. We were grateful for the kind and attentive service! The space worked great for our needs. Thank you!”

“Love Outlet! Service is always outstanding, everything is always set up in advance! Couldn’t be more pleased.”

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Commitment in a time like 2020 can be hard. To help, we are offering daily/hourly rental private offices for the first time ever! You can have a temporary, safe and productive space to call your own. Renting a private office for the day can help small teams get some much needed face time, act as a trial run for anyone interested in join Outlet or offer a quiet escape from the chaos of working from home.

Reach out to us if you are interested or you can book ​HERE​​​

Dear Members,

The County of Sacramento is directing all non-essential businesses to close as of today and for residents to stay at home. This will undoubtedly have crushing ripple effects throughout our region. However, with all of the evidence we have, this action is necessary to save lives. Outlet will be closed starting Wednesday, March 18 until it is safe to welcome our members back. We cannot thank you enough for your loyal support of Outlet Coworking. The entire Outlet team cares deeply about our members, guests, and our community as a whole and we are hoping we all make it through this crisis and re-open as quickly as possible. We appreciate your many concerns during these truly unprecedented times, and we want to relieve any uncertainties that you may have about your membership with Outlet. 

• Memberships will be automatically frozen until Outlet is able to reopen. Future invoices will be credited to reflect the time where our services were unavailable to you. 
• We will be accepting packages until Friday. Please begin sending deliveries elsewhere for the time being. 
• If you need to get items from your private offices or desks, your key fob will still give you access to the building.

We also understand the profound impact the closure will have on you, our members. As a small family business, it will be very painful for us as well. We will continue to support your businesses to the best of our abilities, and we hope you will continue to support us as well. 

Be careful. Be safe. Call people you care about. 
 

Sincerely,

Travis, Harrison and Carly

We got the green light to reopen Outlet on Thursday, May 14th! We are excited to welcome everyone back (though not everyone at the same time :P)! Several changes have been made to the space to create a safer environment for our members.  We are also instituting new policies for our facility with the goal of ensuring the health and safety of all members and guests. We hope to be back to Waffle Wednesdays and handshakes/fist bumps/hugs sometime in the (near) future but we need everyone’s help in following these policies for now. Information about these changes as well as modified hours are below. 

Changes to Space

• Seating has been removed from common areas to accommodate physical distancing.
• All HVAC air filters have been replaced with new HEPA filters.
• Doors from the front room to the rest of the space will be kept open to reduce high touch point.
• Coffee pots will be moved to the bar counter to reduce congestion/traffic in the kitchen.
• Hand sanitizer will be available at several locations around the facility.
• Sanitizing wipes will be placed on all coworking tables and in all meeting rooms.
• Exterior doors will be kept open as much as possible to increase ventilation in the building.

Health and Safety Policies

General

• If you are sick, STAY HOME! 
• If you have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, please follow all federal, state, and local guidance before returning to Outlet.
• 6 feet of physical distance between members should be maintained in common areas.
• No gatherings in common areas.
• No handshakes or any other personal contact.
• Members are highly encouraged to wear masks and wash their hands often. Masks will be available at the front desk for members and guests upon request. (This may turn into a requirement, depending on updated guidance from Sacramento County.)
• Staff will be wearing masks and will be regularly washing hands.
• Disposable cups will be used for coffee, tea, and other beverages.
• Members will place used dishes in the kitchen sink to reduce a high touchpoint. Outlet staff will load and unload the dishwasher.

Common Workspaces

• Members are asked to wipe down their work surfaces with sanitizing wipes before and after use.
• Occupancy limits will be in place for all common spaces to allow for appropriate physical distancing. 
• Updates on common workspace availability will be posted to our Outlet Slack as needed. You can join the Outlet Slack Channel Here.
• High touch surfaces will be cleaned by Outlet staff regularly throughout the day.

Private Offices and Dedicated Desks

• Private Office and Desk Jockey Members are encouraged to follow the common space guidelines within their private spaces.

Conference Rooms

• All bookings will be followed by a 15-minute cleaning and ventilation period.
• Meeting Rooms 1 & 2 will have a 2 person occupancy limit.
• The Board Room will have a 4 person occupancy limit.

New Hours

Monday – Friday 

8am – 6pm

(Members with 24/7 access are not affected by this change)

Reception hours will remain the same.

Monday – Friday 

9am – 5pm

You know that feeling you have when you work hard on something, then the day finally comes when it’s finished, and you get to look at it with total satisfaction knowing all that hard work has paid off? Well, that’s exactly how we at Outlet Coworking feel today. Why? We are finally ready to open up our new Desk Jockey space in the loft upstairs!

The loft here at Outlet has gone through a few different iterations. We started out with a couch, giant bean bags and a big TV on the wall. After 2 years of the TV being turned on once a month and the room rarely being used, we decided it was time to make a few changes. We took the TV down off the wall, added a giant rug to make the space feel a little warmer and added a round table and chairs. Immediately more members started using the space but it still was the most underutilized room in the building. It was time for a major change.

We thought of several different possibilities including closing off the space into more offices but finally decided the best use would be more dedicated desk space. In this new version of the loft, you get all the open-air glory of coworking with the added luxury of personalized, private workspace to call your own. Help us write the next page in the story of the Outlet loft by coming in for a tour and coworking with us! We can’t wait to show you the new space!

Old Versions- I still think they are pretty cool!

This month we are celebrating Outlet’s 4th anniversary. It has been our great pleasure to provide workspace for so many Sacramento small businesses, non-profits, artists, remote workers, independent contractors, and more over these last 4 years. In celebration of this milestone Carly, Travis, and I thought that we would share a little about ourselves, a history of the work we have done here at Outlet Coworking, and some things to look forward to in the future.

The Outlet Kitchen

We first started working towards opening Outlet in the summer of 2014. At that time I was a working for my small boutique film company, Plaid Zebra FIlms, and was looking for a new workspace to accommodate my four man crew. Travis was busy with his property management company and homebuilding projects and was looking for office space so that he could expand out of his home office. It made sense to us that we should get an office together to share the burden of rent and utilities while our businesses continued to grow. It was then that the leasing agent we were working with informed us of a large office building in Midtown that was about to go on the market. We were familiar with the concept of coworking spaces and thought that we could follow the example of the other great spaces already providing flexible workspace beneficial to entrepreneurs and independent contractors in Sacramento.

Our newest conference room, Meeting Room 2. This room was designed by Travis after we received feedback that our conference rooms were becoming overbooked.

From the beginning we wanted Outlet to be a family business deeply rooted in Sacramento. With that in mind we brought our sister, Carly, on as the Director of Operations and decided to use our personal savings as startup capital rather than looking for funding from organizations with interests elsewhere. We hit the ground running in the fall of 2014 with designing our tables and desks, even going as far as taking over the garage of our family home with staining and routing our large table tops, much to our mother’s chagrin. She only had to deal with our intrusion for a short time because we quickly moved into the building at 2110 K Street in December and spent the next 4 months remodeling the space and filling it with all of the bells and whistles we could think of. Then, in March of 2015 we celebrated opening for business with a grand opening party complete with a performance from the band that I was playing in at the time.

The Outlet Courtyard. 21 pallets of pavers, 8 yards of road base, and 2 yards of sand were spread, tamped, and placed by hand  during the construction.

Over the next four years we learned that the work of building this place would never be done.  We continued to improve and rebuild our facility, adding more and larger conference rooms, getting larger TVs, rewiring the network for faster speeds, and listening to recommendations from our members on where and what to improve. Our largest project would come in the spring of 2017 when we realized that the courtyard needed a major overhaul. Using the DIY skills that our father instilled in us growing up, we completely resurfaced the area with pavers that allow for better drainage and a more appealing look. My back still hurts when I think of the days I spent placing stones as the weather heated up that May. More recently we have been working to improve the aesthetic comfort of the space, adding a stylish new conference room, painting the stairwells and annex, and adding comfortable furniture to the back room.  Changes are still coming as we intend to install a soundproof phone booth for our members to use for short calls or video conferences that don’t require a full conference room. That addition should be arriving in the next few months.

New casual workspace added to the back coworking area. We wanted to add another place to work in a more comfortable enviroment.

What started as a side project for us quickly turned into our passion. We have seen small businesses that joined us with a few employees grow from one office to two, to three, four, until they outgrew our space and purchased offices of their own.  We have watched the success of our members as their organizations made a difference for students, fellow entrepreneurs, and the Sacramento community with their programs. We take great pride when members move on to bigger and better opportunities as they pass through our facility. They say that it is easy to sell when you believe in your product, and we truly believe that we provide a great service to our members here at Outlet. Thank you to all our current and past members for being a part of our community and allowing us to be a small part of your story.  We hope to continue to serve you and others in the years to come.

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There is no shortage of amazing coffee shops in Sacramento. The artisans of the local coffee scene take great pride in their work and it shows in the quality of product.

First things first – we serve Insight Coffee here at Outlet. At Insight, they are passionate about producing coffee of the highest quality and it has served us well. However, sometimes you need a nice cold brew or vanilla latte which requires venturing out beyond the (inspired, stunning, inviting…ha) confines of Outlet Coworking and into the neighborhood.

Temple Coffee Roasters

2200 K Street

(300 ft from our front door)

Photo courtesy Temple Coffee

Beautiful space, love the Nitro Cold Brew, outdoor seating on K Street is amazing.

The Trade Coffee and Coworking

2220 K Street

(0.1 mile from us)

Photo courtesy The Trade Coffee and Coworking

Yeah, I am promoting another coworking space. What can I say? They have great coffee. Try the NOLA.

Old Soul Co.

812 21st Street

1716 L Street

(0.2 and 0.3 miles from us)

Photo courtesy Old Soul Co.

Both the original alley location and the Weatherstone location are close by. Great cold brew, excellent breakfasts.

Identity Coffees

1430 28th Street

(0.6 miles from us)

Photo courtesy Identity Coffees

Need some time to walk and think? Walk over to Identity Coffees. Big open space, good mochas and once again, love the cold brew.

Insight Coffee

1616 16th Street

(0.6 miles from us)

Photo courtesy Insight Coffee

I get it, we have Insight here at Outlet. Why head all the way down to Powerhouse to get more Insight? Lattes…..any one of them on the menu. That’s why.