The Station Urban Offices

Dropped in here yesterday when my colleagues and I needed a workspace last minute. It' a very convenient location with super fast wifi and plenty of space. More importantly, the staff is incredible - Dolores was extremely helpful and made what would have been a stressful experience a very pleasant one. If I lived in El Paso I'd definitely work out of these offices regularly, hope to come back!

Are you looking for an office that you can rent out for a small amount of months? Are you looking to no longer have to worry about paying for water, electricity, and all those other amenities that come along with leasing or owning a space? Look no further! The Station Urban Offices is all you need.As someone that's obsessed with all things creatively innovative, my curiosity was piqued by The Station Urban Offices. Not really for an office, but for the coworking space they offered. So San Fran, so New York. A modern place to work beside and occasionally with other like minded people... how cool! Well, not exactly. Honestly, TSUO are best suited for a business that needs a virtual office that they can drop into as they please. It's great for that and even if they don't realize it they really only offer virtual offices.TSUO are definitely modern in design. The occasional painting and art instilation can be found in these offices, all (at least at the time of opening) done by artists from Juarez. Very nice! The walls are white walls which don't necessarily inspire, but they also don't offend with crazy, abstract thoughts. Initially I thought the space was a tad tight, but once I was able to accept this really is a virtual office it made the flow understandable.My experience for a coworking space came off a little sloppy and I hate that it makes it seem like I don't like TSUO because I do... just not for coworking. I already checked this place out online so I knew what to expect to cowork at TSUO for a day... $15. When I got their the receptionist told me $50. I thought I was just having one of those moments where you misunderstand the other person because $15 and $50 can sound kind of similar when said quickly. Nope, she said it again. Fifty, five-zero. What?! Once she realized my shock, she decided to take a look at their website to verify the price. $15. Fifteen, one-five.Then I was given a quick tour of where to find the coworking space. It was cramped. A circular table that took up most of the space and maybe four cubicles, but as it turned out a business rented out the entire coworking space. What's the point of having a coworking space if someone can just rent out the entire space and use it like their personal office? Coworking spaces (and sometimes even shared office spaces) are more than anything a community and I didn't feel the community at all. It all came across as very corporate, like knocking on one of the office doors to pop in and see if they wanted to collab on something was completely unheard of unless I had a meeting and had previously introduced myself to the head of the biz.So after my tour of the "coworking" space, I was walked back to the front of TSUO and told I could work at the communal table in the break-room area. Are you f**king kidding me? Yeah, that was pretty disappointing. Had I known about it at the time of paying, I definitely would've choose Hillside or Coffee Box over TSUO. People were taking phone calls, grabbing coffee, and loudly gossiping/giggling in the area that I was working in. And I can't even be upset about it, because I was in the break-room area... you know, where people typically do those things. I'm pretty sure the receptionist could tell that I was getting annoyed so she did eventually offer me the use of the smaller conference room. The conference room was nice, but I literally paid to work in close proximity to other like minded people so great if I wanted to rent out a conference room (and they would definitely be one of my top picks if I was going to), but the furthest thing from a coworking experience I've ever seen.The amenities for a coworking space were abysmal. Wi-fi, being able to print up to 10 pages free, and free coffee, tea, or water. But for a virtual office space, that's all you need so it would work out perfectly. It may be time for TSUO to pivot and devote themselves completely to virtual offices.I really love this as a virtual office, but it's just not a real coworking space (even though they do sort of offer it). I could see myself coming here if I had a big project that I was working on that had lots of moving parts and hands working on it.