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How Waterman is trying to build a co-working community into an Australian business empire

Neville Waterman’s goal is to provide businesses with the spaces and communities they need, when they need them.
David Adams
David Adams
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Waterman founder and CEO Neville Waterman (left) with Waterman project director Peter Tainsh (right). Source: Waterman

Neville Waterman might have his name on the building, but he doesnโ€™t have an office. Not in the way you or I would have an office, at least. The space heโ€™s chosen for our conversation is a plush boardroom, one of several break-out spaces, training rooms, and private working areas dotting the 7000-square-metre Waterman business complex in Scoresby, Melbourne. For now, the boardroom is his domain, but it could just as easily belong to any of the dozens of architects, lawyers, accountants, or startups who call the co-working site their base of operations.

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