Coworking in Delaware: 19 collaborative spaces for entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote workers

That’s easy enough if you work for a local company with an office, but if you’re a remote worker for an out-of-town company, a contractor, freelancer or entrepreneur, coworking spaces are a good option — if you can find one nearby.

In Delaware, the majority of coworking spaces are in New Castle County, primarily in Wilmington and Newark, even as the population, and the apparent number of remote workers, are increasing in Kent and Sussex counties. Sussex County currently has just one coworking space in Rehoboth Beach, with a second space, a new Mill Space in Seaford, currently under construction. Similarly, Kent County has only one, in the capital city of Dover.

We haven’t updated our Coworking Guide since 2022, and while there are similarities to the last installment, there are some new entries, and a couple that are no longer around.

And since this is Delaware, for this roundup, we’re including several types of spaces: the communal coworking space, mini offices and labs, incubators, and accelerators. Check them out on this map, then scroll down for summaries and pricing.

The Mill

1007 N. Orange St, 4th Fl., Wilmington
3411 Silverside Rd., Wilmington
1023 W Stein Highway, Seaford (Coming soon)

Launched by Robert Herrera with the Buccini Pollin Group in 2016, The Mill has two locations. There’s the original, recently expanded downtown Wilmington space in the Nemours Building, and The Mill Concord, a fully renovated 1980s office park space behind the Marlette Funding headquarters.

Members range from independent programmers to startups to the classrooms of Zip Code Wilmington. As a bonus, The Mill has use of Theatre N on the second floor. Recently, The Mill opened up its expansion to the third floor, making it a two-story coworking space with private offices for businesses and organizations, including the Delaware Prosperity Partnership.

The Mill is also currently renovating the Nylon Capital Shopping center in Seaford, which will be the Sussex County’s second coworking space when it opens around early 2025.

Cost: Rates start at $65 a month for a community membership, $300 for a designated desk, and $850 and up for a private office. The Mill also has larger office spaces and a virtual office with mailbox services.

Note: The Mill is Technical.ly’s preferred coworking space in Delaware. Find out more about how our Preferred Partners program contributes to our independent journalism.

Cowork Reho

511 N. Boardwalk, Rehoboth Beach

Whether you live in the Beaches area or go there to visit, Rehoboth Beach’s Cowork Reho is currently Sussex County’s only coworking space, and the only Delaware coworking space with ocean views. Daily and weekly passes are offered for folks taking a working vacation, or you can pay monthly or yearly rates, including premium rates for private offices with a view.

Cost: Day pass: $50 communal, $100 no-view private, $150 ocean view private; Week pass: $150 communal, $300 no-view private, $500 ocean view private half month; Monthly: $250-350 communal, $400-500 dedicated desk, $750 no-view private, $1000-1750 ocean view private

CSC Station

112 French St., Wilmington

One of Delaware’s most enduring companies, CSC built a state of the art headquarters in the Wilmington suburbs in 2017. In 2019, the company made the move to add a downtown location with the purchase the Pennsylvania Railroad Building next to Biden Station, and opened the multi-use space, including CSC offices and coworking space, in the Fall of 2020.

All in all, there are 26 offices, as well as designated desks and a common workspace. There’s also an inexpensive day rate if you just need a place to work for an afternoon.

Cost: $15/day or $60/month for community workspace, $250/month for a reserved desk, $800+ for office space; conference space starts at $15/hour.

Delaware Innovation Space

200 Powder Mill Rd., Wilmington

Delaware Innovation Space was founded by the University of Delaware and DuPont with support from the State of Delaware, and is located on the Experimental Station campus. This collaborative lab space offers biotech entrepreneurs access to top facilities and peer scientists.

In 2021, DIS launched Science, Inc., a STEM startup incubator that has helped companies like Carbon Reform, SAS Nanotechnologies and Elyte Energy clarify their business strategies and prepare for fundraising.

DIS is specifically focused on STEM innovation and offers affordable lab space, a First Fund grant program and Lab Pods, aka small wet labs designed for startups. They offer, pods, half labs, full labs and lab suites.

Cost: Contact for rates and availability

Delaware Technology Park

STAR Campus, University of Delaware, Newark

Launched in October 2016, DTP is a wet lab incubator located on the 272-acre site of the old Chrysler assembly plant in Newark, now known as University of Delaware’s Science Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. More recently, the Fintech Hub on The STAR Campus opened with additional offerings for entrepreneurs and coworkers.

Cost: Contact for rates and availability

Emerging Enterprise Center

920 Justison St., Wilmington

The New Castle County Chamber of Commerce offers a small business incubator, including low-cost startup office space, mentorships, seminars and other amenities. Located on the Riverfront at 920 Justison St., the EEC has several different packages, depending on how much acceleration you need.

Cost: $50/month for coworking, $150/month for coworking plus (with mail services), $300 for a virtual plan with access to the coworking space; $650+ for an office

The General Store

702 Rockland Rd., Rockland

Located in picturesque Rockland, The General Store offers all of the perks of a “traditional” city coworking space: 24/7 access, free coffee and beer, bookable meeting rooms, private phone booths and even a place to shower.

Cost: $100/month for coworking, $250/month for a personal desk

The Hive on Lookerman

28 W. Lookerman St, Dover

This event space in Dover also offers coworking access for central Delaware freelancers and entrepreneurs, including small business services. This project is part of downtown Dover revitalization and is supported by partners including True Access Capital, Del-One and Black Umbrella.

Cost: Contact for rates and availability

The Hub @ 1201

1201 N. Orange St., Wilmington

Also known as One Commerce Center, this building houses traditional offices, virtual office services, residences and The Hub, Stat International’s coworking space. The Hub’s demographic is less startups looking to network and more companies and sole proprietors looking for small private offices.

Cost: Day pass: $20, Week pass: $35, half month: $70/month, full month: $120/month, premium month (reserved desk, 24/7 access, 2 hours conference room): $180/month

Middletown Business Incubator and Collaborative Workspace

651 N Broad St., Suite 306, Middletown

Located below the canal in New Castle County, the Middletown Business Incubator & Collaborative Workspace, or MBI, launched in 2015 with support from the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Located on North Cass near Main Street, the incubator accommodates up to 15 small businesses.

Cost: Contact for rates and availability

PLY Coworking

1130 Ogletown Rd., Newark

Glasgow-based Reybold Group restored and moved the historic Morrow farmhouse and turned it into it as PLY Coworking Spaces, which opened in May 2023 after executives of the homebuilding company noticed that the post-COVID rise in remote work meant more people looking for a place to work away from home.

Cost: Contact for rates and availability; efficiency suites start at $500

Regus

1000 N. West St. Wilmington
901 N. Market St. Wilmington (Coming soon)
200 Continental Drive, Newark

Regus is a multinational company offering pay-as-you-go “hot desking” and long-term desk leasing at the Brandywine Building in downtown Wilmington and Christiana Corporate Center in suburban Newark, with a new location soon to come to 901 Market Tower in Wilmington.

Cost: $119 per month for 5 days of use, $169 per month for 10 days, $219 per month for a dedicated desk, $269 per month for 30 days

TKO Suites

1521 Concord Pike, Suite 301
300 Delaware Ave., Suite 210

TKO Suites has two locations in New Castle County where, you can get a flexible lease on a private office with access to meeting rooms, a kitchen and other amenities.

Cost: Starts at $15/hour for coworking, $25/hour for conference room. Contact TKO for monthly and office rental rates.

The WIN Factory

300 Martin Luther King Blvd., Wilmington

Launched in 2019, the WIN Factory is Delaware’s first Black-owned coworking space and incubator, with a mission to to level the playing field for underrepresented entrepreneurs. Startups in the space include Influencers Lab Media.

The coworking space fee includes membership in the Win Factory Wealth League, which means access to workshops, funding opportunities and opportunities for communal investment.

Cost: Personal desk $200/month, dedicated desk $300/month, private office $650/month and up

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