Working from home got you down? Eager to hang with some likeminded creative souls? Just curious what the hell is going on inside the mostly empty Portland, Oregon, shopping mall where Tonya Harding once learned to skate?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should look into Jason Kreher’s new member-based creative work studio, opening soon in an abandoned DMV in the Lloyd Center Mall. It’s called, aptly enough, “DMV,” and it promises to be an exciting new meeting and working spot for Portlanders feeling isolated in our strange hybrid/WFH/post-Covid world.
“The pandemic fucked my world up in many ways, some good and some bad,” Kreher, a longtime creative, told Ad Age. “That experience made me re-evaluate how I get to good work, how I want to spend my time, and what I need to feel creatively inspired. A thriving creative community is my answer to all three of those. Thus, the DMV was born.”