Coworking Feasibility Study

Will this building
actually fill?

A coworking feasibility study answers the question sitting underneath the lease: whether there is enough demand in this catchment, at the price this market pays, to fill this specific square footage and still make money. Not an industry outlook. Your building, your trade area, your numbers.

Talk through your building
Catchment demand, not national averages Pricing calibrated to comparable spaces A five-year model you can defend line by line
The question behind the question

Nobody commissions a study because they like studies.

  • A ten-year lease that cannot be unsigned once the build-out is paid for.
  • A vacant floor that has to become something, and soon.
  • A second location that either extends a working business or dilutes it.

In every one of those cases the same thing is already true: the building has an answer. The feasibility study exists to find that answer before the capital is committed rather than after.


What a study contains

Five things, and they have to
agree with each other.

01

Catchment demand

Who is actually inside the trade area. Population, employment mix, business formation and remote-work density for the specific radius that will drive this location, pulled from Census and demographic sources, then benchmarked rather than merely described.

02

Competitive supply

Every operator already serving that catchment, what they charge, what they are missing, and where their occupancy suggests strain. A market can be underserved and still be the wrong market if the wrong competitor is entrenched in it.

03

Market-calibrated pricing

A rate for every sellable unit, grounded in comparable spaces rather than round numbers, and confidence-rated so you can see which prices are well supported by the market and which are a judgment call.

04

Space allocation

How the square footage becomes inventory: office count and mix, meeting rooms, open desks, support and circulation. This is where a floor plan turns into a rent roll, and where optimistic models quietly break.

05

The five-year model

Revenue by stream, a real operating expense build, a month-by-month fill curve, break-even and CapEx payback. The same model a lender or an investment committee would want to interrogate line by line.

06

A stated position

Whether this building supports the business, what would have to be true for it to work, and where the plan is most exposed. A study that cannot arrive at no is marketing.



What you receive

This is what the answer looks like.

A five-year statement built on your building: every revenue line, every operating cost, and the year the space starts earning. In the example below revenue runs from $407,188 to $988,645 across six income lines, and the full expense block and net operating income sit beneath it.

A five-year pro forma statement showing six revenue lines with totals, then the first operating expense lines including rent, marketing and payroll
Five-year overview from a delivered model. Figures illustrative.
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Feasibility study or pro forma

One models the money.
The other tests the premise.

Pro forma

Tells you what happens if the space fills.

It takes a set of assumptions about your building and turns them into a financial model: what it earns, what it costs to run, when it breaks even. The right instrument when the lease economics are settled and the question is mostly the math.

Feasibility study

Tells you whether it fills.

It puts the market underneath those assumptions. Whether the demand exists to fill the space at all, who else is competing for it, and what the market will genuinely pay. The right instrument when the question is still whether this location is the right location.

Both run on the same engine, so the pro forma extends into the study without starting over.

See the Flex Space Pro Forma

How it is delivered

A portal, not a PDF that ages
in a downloads folder.

1

The model, live

The full financial model with the working spreadsheet behind it, so every number can be traced back to the assumption that produced it.

2

The market work, sourced

Demand analysis and pricing research with their sourcing visible, including where confidence is high and where it is a judgment call.

3

The space, rendered

Space allocation set against the actual floor plan, so the unit mix is something you can see rather than a table you have to trust.

A feasibility study is not read once. It gets revisited when lease terms move, when the test fit changes, when a partner or a lender asks a question nobody anticipated. A static report cannot answer a question it was not written for.


Common questions

Before you commission one

A pro forma models the money on a set of assumptions. A feasibility study tests the assumptions themselves: the demand in the catchment, the competitors already serving it, and what the market actually pays. If the lease is settled and you need the math, the pro forma is faster and sufficient. If the location itself is still the open question, the study is the instrument.
Square footage and a floor plan are enough to start. Where the plan already shows offices, the numbers can be run against the space as it stands. Where the plate is open, the office count and unit mix are allocated to our own standards, so a building without a test fit is not a building that has to wait. Documented lease economics are what sharpen the model, and the demand work runs alongside it either way.
The address, the rentable square footage, the lease terms as they are actually documented rather than as hoped, and a floor plan or test fit if one exists. Everything else is sourced independently, which is the entire point of an outside study.
Yes, and that is the version worth paying for. A study whose conclusion is fixed before the work begins is an expensive way to feel better about a decision already made. The useful outcome is often narrower than yes or no: this building works, but not at that rent, or not with that unit mix, or not without a longer ramp than the plan assumes.
Both. Building owners repositioning vacant floors, franchisees evaluating a second location, and first-time operators commission the same underlying analysis. What differs is the decision it feeds. An owner is usually weighing conversion against continued vacancy. An existing operator is weighing expansion against a site they already run and can benchmark the new model against, which is an advantage most first-time buyers do not have.
A delivered Flex Intelligence Portal with the client identity redacted
Delivered portal. Client identity redacted.

Start with the building.

The fastest way to know what this needs is a conversation about the specific space: what the lease says, what the floor plan allows, and what the market around it will support.

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