Well, true. I think of it as an incubator because I envision a whole lot of people working on neat stuff in the same place, which is what I always figured an incubator should be.
As to giving it a shot: man. I'm not sure what the threshold population would have to be to make it work. I could house, like, one person starting next year. (Or two friendly persons.) If their venture paid, that would work, but given that most don't, it probably wouldn't. If I also had some capital, well, there's a three-bedroom place two blocks away for $9000. It looks in pretty good shape from the outside - buy that plus my carriage house and I could house about five people. The odds start to look better in that case.
Once the ball started rolling, well, house prices would unfortunately go up. But maybe not so horribly much, yet. There's plenty of room for growth.
The town would eat it up. They're desperate for anything that might jumpstart something more like an economy.
Never mind that, my server is too busy to do anything reasonable, so I put it at http://richmondhackers.drupalcafe.com/ - now I don't have to worry about fixing my server. (Not that I should put it off any longer, but still.)
As to giving it a shot: man. I'm not sure what the threshold population would have to be to make it work. I could house, like, one person starting next year. (Or two friendly persons.) If their venture paid, that would work, but given that most don't, it probably wouldn't. If I also had some capital, well, there's a three-bedroom place two blocks away for $9000. It looks in pretty good shape from the outside - buy that plus my carriage house and I could house about five people. The odds start to look better in that case.
Once the ball started rolling, well, house prices would unfortunately go up. But maybe not so horribly much, yet. There's plenty of room for growth.
The town would eat it up. They're desperate for anything that might jumpstart something more like an economy.