If your week is deliveries, stock and making things, start with a warehouse; if your week is people at screens and clients in meeting rooms, start with an office. And if the honest answer is both, choose an address where the two share a building — at Goodspace Eastgardens, brand-new warehouses from 42.6m² sit below coworking desks and private suites opening this October.
A first commercial space in Sydney is a decision most small businesses make exactly once before learning what they actually needed, so the choice deserves better than a coin flip. At Goodspace Eastgardens, on Denison St two minutes from Westfield Eastgardens, both options — and the both-at-once option — can be walked in a single tour.
Start with the shape of your week
Forget the five-year vision for a moment and audit an ordinary Tuesday. If stock arrives on pallets and leaves as parcels, you need roller doors, floor area and somewhere for a van. If the value is created on laptops, you need desks, meeting rooms and somewhere to host a client that isn't a café queue. The trap with a first commercial space is signing for the business you'd like to run rather than the one that exists — the week you're already living is the better brief.
The case for starting with a warehouse
The twenty brand-new warehouses at Goodspace Eastgardens run from 42.6m² to 207.3m² across three levels, with roller-door loading, on-site parking and 24/7 access — eleven were still available at the time of writing, and sizes move quickly. The location does logistics work on your behalf: six minutes' drive to Sydney Airport, seven to Port Botany, fourteen from the CBD. See the full spec on the commercial warehouses page, and before you inspect anywhere, take our commercial warehouse inspection checklist along.
The case for starting with an office
From this October, two light-filled coworking levels open upstairs: a dedicated desk is $780 per month including GST, and fully furnished private suites start at $3,250 per month including GST. Everything arrives set up — ergonomic chairs, fast wifi, meeting rooms, kitchens and barista coffee close by — which matters for a first space, where fit-out is the cost nobody budgets.
Or refuse to choose
The reason "warehouse, office or both" is worth asking at Eastgardens in particular: the building doesn't force a permanent pick. First commercial spaces tend to get outgrown in the awkward direction — the office business starts holding stock, the warehouse business hires a bookkeeper. Here, scaling sideways is a lift ride: warehouse downstairs, desk upstairs, one address on every invoice. The on-site café, the 24/7 gym run independently by Anytime Fitness, and end-of-trip showers, lockers and bike parking serve the whole building — whichever door your day starts at.
Book a tour
The warehouses are leasing now, and coworking tours are running ahead of the October opening. Goodspace Eastgardens is at 96a Denison St, Hillsdale NSW 2036 — call (02) 9145 8089 to book a tour and walk both floors in one visit.