The plan, and why it exists.
We are around 87,500 people and one of the fastest-growing counties in Utah. Our jobs and our buildings never kept pace with our growth. Sunshine & Lupine Co. is meant to cover the middle of all that: a professional place to work, meet, learn, and gather that the county does not have yet.
Four problems, one missing place
Working from home keeps getting harder
A lot of local HOAs restrict running a business from a house, and new townhomes leave no spare room for an office. More people work remotely, with less space to do it in.
The only real options are far and expensive
The nearest coworking runs $275 to $475 a month in the Salt Lake Valley, plus the drive on the one road out that always seems to be under construction.
There is nowhere to hold anything
Renting a room means the community center's limited hours, or jumping straight to wedding venues at $780 to $4,900. There is almost nothing in between.
And then the internet goes down
Every remote worker in the valley is suddenly looking for somewhere to work that isn't a coffee shop or the library.
People end up working from the kitchen table, or driving out of the county, or paying out the nose for what little is here. What I am building is the space that covers the middle of all that.
Shaely Shelley, founder
Start small, grow with the demand
Right now
Building the founding-member list and teaching free classes around the county. No lease gets signed until the demand is real.
This fall
Country dance nights start. It is what people asked for first, and a small taste of what a real gathering space feels like.
Opening, targeting 2027
Desks, offices, a bookable event room, scanning, mail service, and business classes, all under one roof in the county.