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Perimeter Business
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New workplaces attract a new kind of worker
By Joe Earle
Like many who work from home, Steve Miller used to
meet clients at a coffee shop. He didn't really care for it.
"Starbucks is loud and distracting," he said.
Miller describes himself as a business placement coach.
He helps people find jobs and helps employers find the
right people. When he joined the hoards of office-less
workers doing business from crowded shops and other
public places, it often was hard to carry on the kind of con
versations he needed to have.
So he joined Roam.
At its new facility, which opened in the heart of
the Perimeter business area in March, Roam offers a
16,250-square-foot collection of meeting rooms, work
niches and, yes, its own coffee shop. It is designed to give
its members a place that functions as an office. They can
meet clients, hold company meetings or brainstorm with
co-workers.
But Roam isn't an office building in the traditional
sense. Located at 1155 Mount Vernon Road, on the sec
ond floor of a
mall and above
an Office Depot,
it's one of several
metro Atlanta fa
cilities promising
to create a new
kind of office for
workers learning
to do business in
a different way
as new technol
ogies - smart
phones, laptops
and ubiquitous
WiFi connections
- allow them to
spend less time
in cubicles and
more time work
ing from home or
elsewhere.
To explain
Roam, Peyton
Day who had
been in the hotel
Phil Mosier
Peyton Day settles into one of
Roam’s conference rooms. Day is
an investor in the Sandy Springs
facility.
Phil Mosier
Roam, located in the heart of the Perimeter business district, offers a 16,250-square-foot
collection of meeting space, work niches, access to high-tech equipment, and even a coffee
shop.
business and is among investors in the new Roam office facility in Sandy Springs, holds up his smartphone.
"This," Day said, "changed everything in how we do work. Now that you have one of these, you can work
anywhere."
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Profile: ‘Basking’ in success -10
Although Baskin-
Robbins store owner
Shaheen Haque re
ceived a master's de
gree in public health
from Emory Univer
sity, she decided sit
ting behind a desk
wasn't for her.
Q&A: Israel and Atlanta trade -11
Tom Glaser, retiring
president of the Amer-
ican-Israei Chamber
of Commerce's South
east Region, discusses
why Georgia and the
Perimeter area attract
so many Israeli busi
nesses.
Powers Ferry Landing -14
Powers Fer
ry Landing, locat
ed four miles from
Sandy Springs, and
close to the Cobb
County line, is
looking for ways to
bump up its busi
ness profile.
