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Jerusalem New Adventures with Urban Place Opening

March 5, 2019Sharon A

For years in Jerusalem, Israel, small business owners and entrepreneurs met in cafes to work on their laptop computers and meet with clients. With the high cost of Jerusalem rentals, businesses just starting up could not manage the expense of office rentals..

jerusalem Israel sharing work space PICO

The Jerusalem co-sharing work space PICO opened in the Talpiot neighborhood in 2012.

It was a novelty, a new concept in Jerusalem at the time, and acted as a center of the blossoming business start-up, entrepreneurial, and technology culture.

In the meantime, other business hubs have been established, including this one also in Talpiot.

Jerusalem Temech Hub for Jewish business women

Since 2013, the Temech Hub on Jaffa Road, is a center for business and entrepreneurial women.

WeWork Jerusalem King George 20 moved into the renovated building of the old Mashbir Department Store in the center of Jerusalem in October 2018.

Jerusalem Israel Main bus station at night outside on Jaffa Road

Now Urban Place Jerusalem has launched its new co-working space, located on Jaffa Road, on the fourth floor of the Central Bus Station building.

After entering the building, a special set of elevators goes to the floor which has been renovated and decorated with inspirational posters and signs.

There are 91 offices of various sizes, and styles,

People in one lounge area in Jerusalem Urban Place

plus multiple lounge spaces, event spaces, meeting rooms,

and this exercise room.

Opening event at Jerusalem Urban Place cowork space

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion joined Urban Place initiators for the opening last week.

But you had to come early to get the good food, in only a few minutes all that was left were radishes and some fruit.

Hanan Brand, one of the founders of Made in Jerusalem, also spoke at the festive evening event, which attracted many curious people from outside Jerusalem.

Features of the Urban Place office space include 24/7 access, secured WiFi, socials, coffee, beer and happy hours, and personal AC. An office in the Central Bus Station has convenience to transportation as a business advantage. Also the new Navon fast train station is across the street.

“Adventure begins at the end of the road you know.”

With these and other new sharing work spaces, stay tuned for new adventures happening on the Jerusalem

Shabbat Shalom

February 28, 2019Sharon A

It’s raining. It’s pouring.

The sun was out for a few seconds today in Jerusalem, Israel.

But it’s been wet and cold for days.

Remember those animals from Noah’s Ark on top of Cinema City?

Noah’s animals knew to get out of winter rain.

Students had to be rescued from a school.

People had to be rescued from cars in flooded valley.

So glad weather was warm and sunny earlier in week.

But now it seems like a perfect time to stay inside.

שבת שלום

Shabbat shalom from wet and windy Jerusalem, Israel.

Jerusalem: Aventures to the Moon and Back to Earth

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019Sharon A

The Israeli Prime Minister is on his way to Moscow.

The Israeli President hosts visitors from Greece and Cyprus.

The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet is on its seven-week journey to the moon.

Beresheet capsule ready for launch to moon — SpaceIL

The privately-funded Israeli space capsule was launched from Florida.

If successful, Israel will be the fourth country to land on moon.

Back here on earth, in Jerusalem, in Israel, life is a balancing act.

On the one hand, new modern roads stretch for miles over former donkey paths and barren sand.

New lodgings in Jerusalem are too many to list now.

But on the first really cold night in awhile, this homeless man was sleeping in the underground passageway to the new Navon fast train station and Jerusalem Central Bus Station.

At the same time, on the fourth floor of the bus station, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion was speaking at the launch of Urban Place, a new co-sharing work space for nearly 100 businesses.

Also this week, Lion hosted mayors from around the world at a conference which opened in Kikar Safra, Jerusalem’s City Council Chambers.

Around Jerusalem, construction fences surround building projects, which descend many stories down into the ground, and are covered with graffiti.

It is always exciting to see when these projects finally reach street level.

Nearby a market on Agrippas Street is busy when weather permits.

But rain or shine people come to the city center to shop.

I was on my way to hear about Arab voting patterns in the upcoming elections.

My only comment on elections, these two men from Abraham Initiatives were well prepared and extremely impressive in their presentation in English.

Also that afternoon, Elan Carr, gave his first major address after being appointed the US Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem.