The Loading Dock – Wake Forest

The Loading Dock’s Wake Forest location is a coworking space on South White Street downtown, one of three in a Raleigh-based group. Philip Freeman, who founded Murphy’s Naturals, started the company in May 2016 after three years of working out of his own garage.

Desks, private office suites, meeting rooms and training space are all available, and a day pass covers a single visit. The company calls its approach radical hospitality, and the point it keeps making is that this should feel like a working office, not a coffee shop with a membership fee.

What to know

• Cowarehousing sits alongside the desk and office memberships.
• Dedicated mailboxes can be taken as a membership on their own.
• Phone booths and Waffle Wednesdays come up often in member reviews.
• The flagship Dock 1053 campus was built for A&P in 1955.
• Public events and member-only events both run through the year.