It’s all right there in the WorkLodge mission statement: “To create professional, campus environments that inspire, empower, and enable our members to do work that changes not just their lives, but the lives of our local communities and beyond.”

The Texas-based WorkLodge transformed the coworking experience in Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth, and with its new, 28,000-square-foot facility in St. Petersburg, it is poised to change the way people feel about going to work in the bay area.

That’s because the all-inclusive WorkLodge is bright and spacious, and places an emphasis on comfort, while still offering flexible solutions for creating, brainstorming, transforming, getting the job done in a professional environment.

Amenities include private office spaces, expandable team suites, virtual offices, a large 30-person training room, a fully operational podcast studio – and, of course, a kitchen and break area.

The current “soft opening” at the St. Pete location, 136 4th St. N., includes the entire second floor; the building’s third floor is also part of the WorkLodge experience and will debut at the official grand opening, expected this August.

Local muralists have created original new works on the sunny second floor walls; third-floor plans include an art gallery, featuring rotating exhibitions by bay area artists Istvan Torok and Gina Marie.