Not directly, but I kind of assumed every business wanted to be the "third place" these days, so I extrapolated that to mean that WeWork wants to replace your "

Not directly, but I kind of assumed every business wanted to be the "third place" these days, so I extrapolated that to mean that WeWork wants to replace your "second place" with their offices, provide value by saving your commute, and then consume your "third place" entirely as well. A ton of articles articles talk sideways at this idea, here are a couple (the second link is the most direct "answer" to your question but it's all interesting): https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/wework-smart-cities-machine-learning-coworking-urban-data/585343/ https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/wework-smart-cities-m... https://www.curbed.com/2019/4/29/18523156/weworks-economic-impact-development-transit-jobs https://www.curbed.com/2019/4/29/18523156/weworks-economic-i... I'm not trying to assert "this is the truth", sorry if that's how I seemed. It's just my layman's take on the situation.