Seminars/Workshops

To register for any of our workshops, call or send your registration form (available below) before the workshop to:

Cool Space Locator

Attn: Workshop Coordinator

279 45th Street

Pittsburgh, PA  15201

Fax: (412) 683-6428

Phone: (412) 683-5790

info@coolspacelocator.com

Cool Space Locator thanks the Citizens Bank Foundation for their support of our workshops.

Right Size It: Find the Right Space for Your Small Business

Are you a start-up or existing business in need of office space and don’t know the first thing about the current commercial real estate market?  Or are you an existing business with future downsizing or expansion space needs? Need to know whether you should purchase or lease a space?

Cool Space Locator offers a workshop for start-up and/or existing small businesses, artists, and arts organizations that will provide you with basic and essential tools necessary to find the right office or studio space for your business and will help you identify your true space needs to make effective and financially healthy space planning decisions.  Typically small, these workshops offer the opportunity to get your questions answered by a real estate professional and will help you determine next steps in the process of finding space for your business or organization.

$35/organization

(up to 3 persons/organization)

Right Size It Registration Form

It's More Than Just an Address: How to Plan and Execute a Working Office

and POW: Practical Orientation of the Workplace

Once you've found the right spot to put your business, your location effort is only half done. Most business location projects involve construction and improvements to the space to meet the specific needs of your business. How do you estimate needs, costs and time related to tenant improvements? What are the unique challenges found in retrofitting older properties for a new use? How do you negotiate who pays for these improvements? This advanced workshop gets into the details of tenant improvements so you are not blindsided as you move through these often complex transactions.  The workshop is also appropriate for those that are preparing to renovate a current office space.

CSL welcomes Lee Lewand of Lewand Business Solutions, LLC, who will be discussing the importance of build out, cost estimating, and properly preparing technology services in your new space.

This workshop builds on some of the information introduced in the Right Size It workshop and is appropriate for those who have previously attended that workshop, but anyone is welcome.

$35/organization

(up to 3 persons/organization)

More Than Address Registration Form

Managing Your Location Decisions: A Workshop for Business Leadership

Commercial leases and real estate purchases differ from residential transactions in ways that impact your bottom line and business performance.  The process for choosing a location can take time and require a serious investment of time and money.  Location, location, location is not the only thing to consider.  The success (or failure) of your business may ride on managing these transactions well.   This workshop will help you understand critical aspects of finding commercial real estate, managing the process and the time it takes, understanding both the critical financial aspects of the deal and the important legal issues involved, and help the small business professional find the best space for their company. 

In this workshop you will:

• Learn to understand key terms in commercial real estate transactions
• Learn the best process for determining your space requirements
• Determine a framework for the budget for your move and operating your new space
• Understand the process of looking for space
• Learn how building and zoning codes affect your choices
• Learn how commercial leases work, and some of the important aspects of leasing that can affect your business decisions in the long term
• Understand how to make a decision between leasing or buying commercial property for your business

$45/person (or $35/person if 2 or more from your organization attend)

Register online at DUQ's SBDC or call (412) 396-6233.

*NEW* Lease vs. Buy

Next workshop:TBD

This workshop details the pros and cons of both buying and leasing commercial property. It also seeks to explain how to decide which option is the best for your business. Though briefly discussed in the Right Size It and Managing Your Location Decisions workshops, this session will go further into the details of leasing or buying, and is appropriate for those that have attended earlier workshops.

$35/organization

(up to 3 persons/organization)

Lease vs. Buy Registration Form