New Spaces

New European-style coworking space clocks into Southlake

The Southlake office sits in a park-like setting.

Photo by Haley Rogers

As the trend of coworking continues to grow among employers in Dallas-Fort Worth, so do the number of nontraditional workplaces. Spaces, a European-born coworking center, has opened a location in Southlake, its second in DFW and 34th in North America.

The two-story building is at 550 Reserve St., Ste. 150, in Southlake's Granite Place development.

Inside are nearly 25,000 square feet of open collaborative space, including 190 private desks available for rent, a large and small meeting room, a computer lab/coworking space, and other privately rented offices in which clients can set up and leave camp as is while they're away.

Lined with glass walls and featuring bright furniture and clean lines, the modern workspace also offers rentable bicycles and a generous amount of greenery, giving the place an indoor park feel. Spaces vice president Joshua McLeod describes it as having a “European feel and progressive vibe.”

The new location was an easy choice for McLeod. Situated just off of Hwy. 114 lining Southlake Town Square — and about 20 minutes from DFW Airport — the spot serves as a social and professional hub, one that has yet to see any coworking offices in the area. The nearest one can be found 40 minutes away in Fort Worth or at a mom-and-pop shop in Grapevine.

“In this market, you have a high density of professionals, well-located within a number of other great townships and cities like Keller, Trophy Club, and mid-cities,” McLeod says. “Great thoroughfares come through here.”

Spaces was started in Amsterdam by Martijn Roordink and quickly grew throughout Europe. Now there are Spaces in almost every major city in North America.

Spaces opened its first DFW location on McKinney Avenue in Uptown Dallas in 2016. (CultureMap has had offices there since April 2017.) Pricing varies by location, and memberships offer the lowest cost. For contracts of two years or more, clients receive generous discounts.

The demand for open, community-driven workspaces around DFW is high, McLeod says, as evidenced by the Southlake location's early success. Before it opened its doors, it reached 50 percent capacity; he expects they'll reach 80 percent, if not more, by mid May.

Nationwide in 2017, the coworking trend reached up to 4,043 spaces in the U.S., and is projected to hit 6,219 spaces by 2022, according to Statista.

Spaces, founded in Amsterdam, has a European-style interior.

Photo by Haley Rogers

Spaces, founded in Amsterdam, has a European-style interior.

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Jobs report

Texas ranks among 10 best states to find a job, says new report

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You have a better chance of landing a job in Texas than in most other states.

If you’re hunting for a job in Texas amid a tough employment market, you stand a better chance of landing it here than you might in other states.

A new ranking by personal finance website WalletHub of the best states for jobs puts Texas at No. 7. The Lone Star State lands at No. 2 in the economic environment category and No. 18 in the job market category.

Massachusetts tops the list, and West Virginia appears at the bottom.

To determine the most attractive states for employment, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 34 key indicators of economic health and job market strength. Ranking factors included employment growth, median annual income, and average commute time.

“Living in one of the best states for jobs can provide stable conditions for the long term, helping you ride out the fluctuations that the economy will experience in the future,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo says.

In September, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas led the U.S. in job creation with the addition of 195,600 jobs over the past 12 months.

While Abbott proclaimed Texas is “America’s jobs leader,” the state’s level of job creation has recently slowed. In June, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas noted that the state’s year-to-date job growth rate had dipped to 1.8 percent, and that even slower job growth was expected in the second half of this year.

The August unemployment rate in Texas stood at 4.1 percent, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Throughout 2025, the monthly rate in Texas has been either four percent or 4.1 percent.

By comparison, the U.S. unemployment rate in August was 4.3 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2025, the monthly rate for the U.S. has ranged from 4 percent to 4.3 percent.

Here’s a rundown of the August unemployment rates in Texas’ four biggest metro areas:

Austin — 3.9 percent
Dallas-Fort Worth — 4.4 percent
San Antonio — 4.4 percent
Houston — 5 percent

Unemployment rates have remained steady this year despite layoffs and hiring freezes driven by economic uncertainty. However, the number of U.S. workers who’ve been without a job for at least 27 weeks has risen by 385,000 this year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August. That month, long-term unemployed workers accounted for about one-fourth of all unemployed workers.

An August survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed a record-low 44.9 percent of Americans were confident about finding a job if they lost their current one.

This story originally was published on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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