Gallery: Inside WeLive, WeWork's Dorm-Style Take on Urban Housing
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Today, in the Financial District, in downtown Manhattan, WeWork opens WeLive, its experiment in co-living.
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WeLive applies the WeWork model to housing, by renting apartments of various sizes that come fully furnished and decorated, in a building stocked with the kind of conveniences normally found at Silicon Valley tech campuses.
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The apartments all come with a small kitchen area with a full-sized refrigerator, stovetop, and microwave. For more grandiose cooking, there's a state-of-the-art communal kitchen in each "neighborhood"—WeLive's name for clusters of floors.
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The bathrooms are bigger, and newer, than what you would find in most New York City apartments.
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WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey says he wants WeLive to feel like " a series of opportunities"—an apartment complex that’s designed to support whatever style of domestic life you might prefer.
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An on-site laundry room doubles as a game room, with ping-pong tables and pinball machines (not shown here).
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Studios with about 450 square feet will rent for $2,000 a month. The largest units have four bedrooms in 1,000 square feet, and per-tenant pricing starts at $1,375. There are no credit checks or broker fees, and residents rent on a month-to-month basis.
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WeLive’s units are cleverly designed to embrace density; several apartments come with Murphy beds, and the ample storage space and modular sofa make it possible to maximize the utility of a few hundred square feet.
