Breather is opening five new locations in L.A.

LOS ANGELES—Co-working-style office spaces are evolving to meet tenant demands. Breather is a “network of individual meeting rooms and workspaces,” and it is opening up five new shops in Los Angeles, in Downtown, Hollywood, West Hollywood and Culver City. The office solution is another brand of alternative office spaces for the changing office environment, and illustrates the vast demand for different types of spaces. To find out how Breather is competing in the market and why it has pegged Los Angeles for this new growth, we sat down with Peter Sellick, head of real estate at Breather, for an exclusive interview. Here, we dig into the demand for this type of space, why L.A. is a key growth market and how they are competing with other brands.

GlobeSt.com: Why have you targeted L.A. for this expansion?

Peter Sellick: When we first launched in Los Angeles we were focused on neighborhoods that catered to growing startups in the tech and creative sectors – mainly Santa Monica and Venice Beach. We're beginning to see the demand for flexible office and meeting room space in more traditional industries and from larger, more established corporations. As a result, we've been expanding into areas like DTLA here and in the central business districts across our nine other markets.