[sudo-discuss] Fwd: The Omni

[Liberty Madison]

I am hoping we continue to occupy the current location under more favorable terms. The access to not only BART, but city government, assemblies, events, community is appealing.


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Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: The Omni
From: David Keenan <dkeenan44 at gmail.com>
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CC: Re: [sudo-discuss] Fwd: The Omni

Thanks Eddan for clarifying.

Im sad i missed the joint meeting with CCL re: moving in - we definitely need more meatspace strategizing on making a 3-way move like that happen -

I'm really happy that marina and y'all are checking out the Omni and other potential spaces - I'm going to start looking pretty hard and get BAPSers in on this too - sounds like a guesstimated combo sudo/baps/ccl monthly budget would be ~$4500, does that seem about right? 

Re: SUDO moving into the Omni, it sounds super cool and personally I have no problem with the location - but I do think if there are ppl living in the space, that might make it challenging - conversely if there are lots of loud shows there, that might make having a class tough? And more or less importantly.. are there windows in the Omni space? It's be great if whatever space SUDO moved to had more natural light..

On Monday, September 30, 2013, Eddan Katz wrote:
Terminating the current lease means the latter, David. That is - at that point, a new/better lease can be negotiated. Or not, if so decided.

While the details on what a co-op purchase would look like still have to be hammered out in detail, it was my understanding from George that he was interested in an arrangement that would include selling off equity in that portion. Different organizations would put up money in their collective shares and that wing would be organized as a co-op with the different organizational/individual owners taking part in the decision-making of managing the building.

On Sep 30, 2013, at 12:05 PM, David Keenan wrote:

Hey guys, 

Regarding leaving 2141 and scoping out new spaces..

I was hoping someone could fill me in on what is really meant by deciding we are officially 'terminating the lease' in Dec. ?

Does it mean we are definitely out of 2141 come Jan., ie, we definitely dont want to stay at 2141? Has that been decided? 

Or, would we have the opportunity to negotiate a new/better lease if we did decide to keep on at 2141? 

Re: a co-op purchase of part of 2141, what are the brass tacks of that exactly? I..e, do we have however many tens of thousands I imagine we would need for most mortgage downpayments? Is there some angel investor here I dunno about?

Along the same lines what are our real-world options with respect buying the church, or part of the Omni? Or are we just talking about renting part of the omni?

Personally, I'd prefer to move, but move with BAPS, SUDO, and CCL. It kind of seems like maybe we should find a good place to move to, and understand what our combined budget is. if SUDO moves out without BAPS that would suck for BAPS and also mean that SUDO would probably get a smaller space than we would get if we combined forces, synchronized, and all moved somewhere together (or mayber stayed at 2141 together, under more amenable conditions). Staying together being the operative word to me here..

Best.
David



On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, David Rorex <drorex at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com> wrote:

*Half the room will still be avavilable, and could be Sudo's for approx $2k/month.
How many square feet are we getting in exchange for that $2k?
 
*It is 10 minutes walk from McArthur BART

That's not too bad, obviously closer is better, and MacArthur is not a very safe area at night, but it's oakland, what are you gonna do
 

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Tracy Jacobs <kinetical at comcast.net> wrote:
You do realize that's very close to Ace Monster Toys?  If Sudo room moves up to the Berkeley Border, it would make sense to join with Ace Monster Toys.  Also, in my opinion that is way too far from Bart, and way too far from where I live, so I would probably not ever go there.  

Sounds like an interesting space though, and that is a better neighborhood than where AMT is now.  Maybe they would be interested in this space?

Tracy

It's 1.4 mi away, which is relatively close, though not a super convenient walking distance. However they are looking for bigger cheaper spaces (minimum 3000 sq ft, and at most $1/sqft), so I'm not sure this would work. Also they have a requirement that anything over 2500sqft MUST have overhead sprinklers. That combined with the noise constraints might be an issue, since AMT has lots of big noisy toys (large CNC router tables, laser cutters, power saws, etc)

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