Concord Makerspace is looking for a new home

Wanted: Funky industrial building somewhere around Concord, not too up-to-date, open to unorthodox usage. Contact the city’s homeless makerspace.

“We don’t need Class A manufacturing space. We need a building that doesn’t have as high a demand from a traditional business that could pay a high rent,” said Jared Reynolds, president of Concord Makerspace, which has left its first home in the Beede Electric building in Penacook and needs a new home. “We’re not seeing much opening up in Concord.”

The big drawback for Concord Makerspace, formerly known as Making Matters, seems to be that Concord wasn’t as much of a mill town as many other small New England cities. Empty mill buildings, often neglected for decades and therefore cheap to rent and not too picky about…