ALTSpace has been operating at close to peak capacity all summer, hosting a lot of work for the Shame Project and the Groovik’s Cube as well as many smaller projects. We’ve decided to expand into the unit next door, doubling our floor space: the current tenants will be out at the end of the month, and there’s a door we can unlock on the common wall which will connect the two units, so we will have one big happy 2400-square-foot makerspace.

We will be able to set up more work tables and more storage lockers, which means we can bring in more members. We will also have room to expand our machine shop to triple or quadruple its current size – a partition wall and a new drop ceiling should give us enough soundproofing to run power tools. If all goes well we will be able to move in a mill, a lathe, and a 2D CNC router table! Very exciting – this will greatly expand the range of projects it will be possible to build there.