“The new year brought with it new changes to OBCAI. Your Board of Directors has been busy working behind the scenes to make certain that your organization is fine-tuned.” Read the full President’s Message

OBCAI has partnered with a new service provider for members to provide to their clients. ClutterFreeBox is a simple and convenient resource for your clients — providing the exact amount of storage they need — by the box.
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Mark Hemmeter, President and Founder of Office Evolution, and their team have joined OBCAI as a member.  With ten locations across the Denver metro area and the “Colorado Front Range”, Office Evolution, founded in 2003, is specifically designed for the sole proprietor and small business in Colorado. Read more

Norman Fox of AoPlan has designed over 100 business centers.  In this interview with OBCAI, Norman, discusses many interesting aspects of center design, including the ideal ratio of leasable to non-leasable space; factors that determine efficient layout; and the newest ideas in center design. Read more

On January 19th, OBCA-CAN, the Canadian OBC Local Member Network, held an incredible meeting. Hosted by The Rostie Group and OBC-CAN President Cynthia Rostie in Toronto, the meeting included video conference that enabled 35 participants from 25 business centers in Canada to participate. Read more

February 11th at 12:35 pm was an anticipated moment at Central Park Business Centre (CPBC), when staff and clients from its 40 offices came out to celebrate in red and white for the crossing of the Olympic torch from Burnaby into Vancouver. Read more

OBCAI’s own blog has launched. The first blog provides tips to make your social media time more effective. Members are encouraged to both comment on posts and to submit blogs as well. Look for upcoming OBCAI blogs on ‘creating a drip email campaign’; ‘industry trends from 4th quarter 2009' and ‘how business centers can prepare a press release ahead of time on their efficacy during a disaster’. Read more

Members: OBCAI’s Board has narrowed the city search for the 2011 Annual Conference to five cities: Chicago, New York, London, Montreal and Atlanta. Please help the Board in its decision by providing your feedback on your preference. Read more

Commercial office rents by city and their rate of change; Differing lease protocol by country; and commercial office property expectations in 2010 by real estate economists, are some of the information available on the web.
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Have you attended an OBCAI Conference in the past few years? Then check out our new video montages from last year’s San Diego Conference and another one promoting the 23rd Annual Conference this year in Miami. Read more

Just a quick reminder that you have tremendous resources available to partner with and help you succeed as center operators. OBCAI’s Associate Members are a vital resource whose experience with other operators enables them as service providers to give the best advice and programs on a variety of matters. Read more

OBCAI will be holding a Silent Auction at the 23rd annual conference, held September 22-25th in Miami. Read more

Podcasts with members of the Association can be heard on the home page of the website. Just put your speakers on – the podcast broadcasts begin automatically. Eight podcasts have been produced to date. Read more

Member center locations and affiliates are listed on the website. Click on “Find an Office Location” (The picture of the globe on the home page.) Now on the “Find An Office” page, in the box on the left, for example, type in a State (say “New York” and the companies, with location pop up. Read more

Interested in sponsoring an OBCAI Webinar? Sponsorships of our webinars are now available for $200 per webinar. Sponsors will receive promotions in four HTML eblasts to the industry, with their logo and link to their site as well as a brief explanation of the benefits their company brings to the Association. Read more

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