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By Crissy Neville

Coworking Space in Dunn Brings New

Workspace Options to Town

Things are growing in the Gateway City to Campbell Univer- exponential growth since the Durham flagship site’s opening
sity. First came Starbucks. Now Dunn also has a coworking five years ago. That’s according to Laura Rupert Garcia, RE-
space. The small Harnett County town of nearly 10,000 is be- ALTOR® and Movil Realty Vice-President of Growth.
ginning to boast urban amenities attractive to business profes-
sionals, particularly gen Z’s and millennials who nod to the “Coworking and The Chill Place have constantly been grow-
mod. But even traditionalists can appreciate what coworking ing. It has been a roller coaster,” she said. “We are expanding
spaces offer, particularly in this pandemic era of work-from- and will open as many locations as we need to, preferably 30
home commonness, enterprise outsourcing, business network- minutes apart.”
ing and office decentralization.
While Dunn is a bit more than 30 minutes away from the other
Enter The Chill Place at 123 S. Railroad Avenue, which opened North Carolina properties, the All-American City is in a good
in downtown Dunn March 13. Not new to the coworking space place, she said. “Dunn is between a lot of growing markets; ev-
world, The Chill Place has three other North Carolina locations erything is juxtaposed. Also, I grew up in Dunn, and my family
in Durham, Burlington and Wendell and an additional fourth is here. My sister and brother-in-law are both agents with Mo-
site in Charlotte not-yet opened. Outside the state, there are vil and live here. The company likes to support local enterprise
Chill Places in New York and Ecuador. and provide our agents with a local hub in which to work.”

A sister company to Movil Realty, the business has experienced The Chill Place is the brainchild of Movil Realty CEO Otto

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