Co-Work spaces evolving as they gain in popularity

There was a time not long ago when co-working was confined to gritty, industrial spaces with spartan furnishings. To make up for the low-end and typically inexpensive environments, purveyors would provide kegs of beer or bags of chips to their mostly millennial customers.

But a new generation of co-working spaces is revolutionizing the shared-office concept throughout the Gulf Coast and beyond, with upscale offerings and, at times, triple-digit rents.