Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Making it... with a little help
Makerspace gives new enterprises a hand up
By: Martin Cash
Posted: 10/8/2011 1:00 AM
The floors are bare concrete in the third-storey space of a nondescript Adelaide Street warehouse building in the west Exchange District.
Over the last few months, three Winnipeg entrepreneurs and about 30 volunteers have built several rudimentary rooms with chipboard walls, hired an electrician to wire the place and hauled in about $250,000 worth of manufacturing equipment.
Welcome to Winnipeg's first makerspace, called AssentWorks.
It's the brainchild of Michael Legary, the 31-year-old owner of Seccuris, a successful information technology security company.
Over the last year, he recruited Kerry Stevenson, former chief technology officer of Great-West Life, and David Bernhardt, an industrial designer, to be fellow directors.
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