Omicron is setting up Inscape Co-work in its buildings at Koregaon Park Annexe as well as Seven Loves Chowk and more are in the pipeline.
Inscape Co-work, a wellness-based co-working space in Pune’s Koregaon Park, has been acquired by Omicron Properties, a real-estate company from Aurangabad that has been in the city for seven years. “We wanted somebody who could put more fuel and take Inscape to a larger scale,” says Nishant Somani, who had founded the business four years ago and turned it into a distinctive property in the city’s landscape. The deal was signed on March 31.
At the heart of Inscape is nature, present in trees on the property, the birdcall during the day, the complementary fresh lemon and ginger amla that is served besides tea and coffee and an app on which one can listen to ragas to relax. “When I started, co-working spaces were a relatively new concept and a wellness-based one was an experiment. What we soon saw was that people liked to work in the open and stay close to nature. In the morning and evening, we see people sitting outdoors,” says Somani, who had invested Rs 40 lakh initially and kept the business afloat during the coronavirus pandemic—when many establishments shut down—by infusing his savings in it. Under the new arrangement with Omicron, Somani remains a stakeholder and the staff of four has been retained.