Fuel Your Morning.Build Your Future.
A place for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs: the warmth of home, the focus of a workspace and the life of a coffee house. The building is on its way, in the Leuven area. The community already meets.
What The Third Place will be
One building with history, made for the people who build things. Open from the early morning, for working, for belonging and for gathering.
Work
A seat that becomes yours. Quiet corners, good coffee and the kind of focus that is hard to find at home or in an open-plan office.
Belong
The same faces, week after week. Members who know your name and what you are building. Not a network: a place where you are expected.
Gather
Arcade 38: a separate room for evenings, dinners, workshops and team days, for 10 to 50 guests. Small on purpose.
Recognise yourself. Find your people. Give it form. Care for it. Pass it on.
Before the building, the table
A place is made by its people before it has walls. While we search for the right building, The Third Place already meets.
Breakfast Sessions
Every other Friday · 07:00–11:00 · Free for now
Bring your own work and sit beside other people who build things. Coffee, breakfast, focus, and someone to think out loud with when you get stuck. This Friday we meet at the Flying Coffeeshop in Tienen. After that? Still a small question mark, while we test locations in the Leuven area to find the right place.
We use your details only to invite you to the sessions. Privacy: see our Legal page.
A Weekly Reflection
One letter each Sunday: a story, something to reflect on, and news from The Third Place.
Receive the letterEchoes of Influence
Conversations and stories about who we were before we learned to adapt.
Founding members
For businesses that want to help shape The Third Place from the start: a seat at the Founders Table, priority for Arcade 38 evenings and your name on the Founders Wall. There will be fifty Founders places, offered first to the people on this list.
Join the waitlist
Founder's Note
I began this house because I was tired of being improved.
For years I mistook my ambition for restlessness. What I actually wanted was someone to say: nothing here is broken. I built The Third Place so that sentence could be said properly — with rooms, with rituals, with company.
Not restless. Ambitious.
We work slowly on purpose. Something opens when it is ready to hold people, not when it is ready to be announced. That is the only promise I make.