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The idea that you can get a 40,000 sq ft space for $25,000 makes me want to cry too.
</div><div><br></div><div>Ace Monster Toys has a 1,600 sq ft space that costs about $1 sq ft but we don't have to pay for power.</div><div><br></div><div>Al</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Al Billings</div><div>http://www.openbuddha.com</div><div>http://makehacklearn.org</div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Gui Cavalcanti wrote:</p>
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<span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Artisan's Asylum here, for a funny aside and a sense of scale. We pay on the order of $25,000 a month in rent and $6,000 a month in electricity for 40,000 square feet. We're currently getting a discount on our rent, so that number is eventually going to go up slightly. We're in an extremely well maintained warehouse that's less than a mile from MIT and Harvard, in Somerville, Massachusetts.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">The idea that someone could get a 5,000 square foot warehouse for less than $1,000 a month makes me want to cry a little.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>
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