Facility Plan

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Intro

This page should address how Free Geek's Facility might change over the next 3-5 years so that we can better fulfill our mission and live up to our principles.

Facilities

• How did we get all this space?

5000 on 10th ave.(middle 1/3d)

-> 10000 added the whse (north 1/3d)

-> 15000 added the classroom and store (south 1/3d)

Space Usage

• Space Usage Meetings

current plan and what it has grew out of

• zoning

In the council meeting We decided on a Zoning structure for Free Geek

• flow

The flow at Free Geek Jumps around alot. One idea to change this is the Lean Free Geek idea.

One suggestion is that we could get our own building.

• we would have a better justification for some kinds of grants.
• We would be better able to design the site plan for our needs

SWOTs

Please define a goal for this SWOT

	Good (for Free Geek)	Bad (for Free Geek)
Internal (to Free Geek)	Strengths: Strengths are advantages we have that are internal to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things we do.) We have a lot of experience in to design our area for work flow We have a positive cash flow at this time.	Weaknesses: Weaknesses are problems we have that are internal to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Things we do poorly or not at all.) Informing the public of a move takes a lot of energy and we can sometimes run out of steam.
External (to Free Geek)	Opportunities: Opportunities are advantages we have that are external to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things that will or could happen to us.) the sweetest location could come up just as we get enough money in the pot someone might be looking to buy a building for a origination like us	Threats: Threats are problems we have that are external to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Bad things that will or could happen to us.) the real estate market fluctuates prices could be peaking as we are ready to buy the market could plummet after we buy If our income drops, we would still have a large fixed cost of buying the building

See also Trends and Attributes | What do we want to do?

Another option is expanding into the upstairs space (to the north).

• we would have more space to flex into
• We are here every day so expanding in the space can happen over a long period of time.

Please define a goal for this SWOT

	Good (for Free Geek)	Bad (for Free Geek)
Internal (to Free Geek)	Strengths: Strengths are advantages we have that are internal to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things we do.)	Weaknesses: Weaknesses are problems we have that are internal to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Things we do poorly or not at all.) We would be landlords and we are not very good at that. We would have to make the location handicap accessible (spending money on a building that is not ours) We tend to fill areas up with junk.
External (to Free Geek)	Opportunities: Opportunities are advantages we have that are external to Free Geek and helpful to achieving the objective. (Good things that will or could happen to us.) Landlord decides to give us the building because we are such awesome tenants. We may continue to expand. second	Threats: Threats are problems we have that are external to Free Geek and harmful to achieving the objective. (Bad things that will or could happen to us.) Landlord decides to sell the building and we dont have the money to purchase We may lose income with increased competition.

See also Trends and Attributes | What do we want to do?

Related Documents

• 3 - 5 year plan and Vision Statement
• Long Term Strategy Process
• Meta Question
• Hiring Strategy
• General Priorities
• Space Usage