After five years and a hard hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, makerspace NextFab’s Wilmington location is coming to an end, closing its doors on March 31.
What happens to the Creative District building and equipment — including state-of-the-art woodworking and printing equipment — will depend largely on the community. Ideally, Philadelphia-based NextFab’s Rebecca Ledbetter said, it will continue to serve Wilmington creatives in some way.
“We’re still exploring options,” Ledbetter, the org’s director of marketing, told Technical.ly. “We’re looking at some of our friends and our partners and the [local] government to see if there is any possibility of someone being able to utilize the building with the equipment, because we do really want that resource to stay in Wilmington.”
As for the Wilmington-based members, who have always had full access to the…
