Our Marrickville Co-Working Space

When a gap year turned into a gap decade it was safe to say Adventure was on the cards. It’s been a long time to get here, more late nights than we’d care to remember, climbing crags the world over, waves on every continent and new friends in every city; be it one night in Lhasa or a lifelong mate met on a balcony in Portland - connections with like minded people is what we do this for.

Wind back a couple of decades, it’s the summer of 2003, the air is dry and hot; the fires had been intense that year and it was a summer to remember. I’d finished my HSC four months earlier, days working as a landscape labourer - nights stacking shelves at the local IGA - all saving up for the big adventure. I’d been planning for years was here. I’d intended to go for a year, maybe a year and a half - Christmas of 2012 I came home.

The Adv. Collective Co-Working space is based above our passion and lively hood - Adventure Merchants & Outfitters and A.M.O. Garage - smack bang in the Inner West of Sydney - not far from our original warehouse in Petersham where we started Bear Rentals - our first project after returning home. We had some spare space, so we thought why not see if some other like minded legends might want to work here alongside us.