RICH BECKERMEYER

Sacramento 2.0 (2012 - 2017)

The Urban Hive is housed in a former Union Pacific warehouse at the corner of H St. and 20th.

Brandon Weber, Founder of the Urban Hive.

Benjamin Infeld shows off a small circulation magazine he reads as he connects with Keenan Evers, a graphic artist, at an Urban Hive community lunch hosted at the Golden Bear.

Submerge Magazine co-founders, Melissa Welliver and Jonathan Carabba, were some of the first members of the Urban Hive in 2009.

Brandon is continually testing new apps and methods of management to best serve his members. He does most of the team management from his cell phone.

Jon St. Agustin, a former Community Manager for the Urban Hive, adjusts a projector for semi-regular docent meeting.

The two main areas for general members change art work and seating arrangement every few weeks.

Kelsey Ruiz and Madison Andermahr, Angel Hack marketing team members, discuss strategy and their next hackathon coding event.

Urban Hive members share drinks at Low Brau during a community lunch.

Capturing the state of California’s evolving job market during 104 Mondays turned into a larger, and longer, project about one of the first co-working spaces in the United States, the Urban Hive, located in Sacramento, Calif., it's founder Brandon Weber, and the community he cultivates.
In an age of the rise and fall of WeWork, Weber’s idea of connecting a shared work space membership model influenced by technology and design has been an ongoing experiment since 2009.
This series documents job growth in Northern California's recovering economy and how a younger generation works and innovates after a major country-wide recession.