It’s nice to see CoCo (Minneapolis-based coworking space) expanding to include Fargo-Moorhead. There seem to be conflicting ideas about entrepreneurship resources in rural areas. On the one hand people talk about the Internet as the great equalizer. One the other people seem hesitate to bring resources to rural areas because they lack a critical mass to make something work. It’s nice to see an urban venture crossing the barrier into a more rural area…

In an announcement of huge consequence to the startup community in the Fargo-Moorhead area, Minneapolis co-working company CoCo has announced today that they will imminently be launching a CoCo Fargo location, in partnership with Emerging Prairie.

The news signals the first launch of a CoCo location outside of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and is a major signal that the Fargo-area startup community has caught national attention. Of great importance to the state of North Dakota is the fact that CoCo’s Fargo location will represent the state’s first connection to the Google for Entrepreneurs program, of which Coco is a founding participant. The space will be located in the epicenter of downtown Fargo in the historic Merchants National Bank Building on Broadway.