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We’re building the shop we wish we’d had.

Atlas Labs is a members’ production floor in San Diego, opening January 2027, for people who make physical products — the place to machine a first run, cut an enclosure, or bring up a board without buying a building full of machines first.

// How it started

Atlas started with two builders and a problem. Garrett and Dan were making the products for Anthem Armory — their line of historically accurate WWII paintball replicas — and kept hitting the same wall: the machines they needed weren’t anywhere they could reach without buying a whole shop’s worth of equipment, plus a building to put it in.

So they decided to build that shop — and not keep it to themselves. The idea was simple: a members’ production floor where the tools to make real things are a membership and a safety checkout away, instead of a capital expense. Somewhere Anthem Armory could get rolling, and any other builder could too.

That floor is 2293 Verus Street — four ground-floor shops for wood, metal and welding, digital fab, and electronics, under a second floor of desks, lounge, and a gym, with a yard out back. Anthem Armory is the first company on it; the rest is open to whoever turns up with something they want to make. Doors open January 2027.

// From idea to open

2026

A building on Verus Street

Garrett and Dan settle on 2293 Verus Street and draw up the floor; the permit set lands in June 2026.

2026

The shops take shape

Buildout begins — four production shops downstairs, a second floor above, and the machines specced and on order.

Jan 2027

Doors open

Founding members get their keys and the floor goes live.

Watercolor rendering of the Atlas Labs yard: a fenced lot behind the warehouse with pickleball courts, a slatted pergola over picnic tables, and a basketball hoop on the wall.

Watercolor rendering of the Atlas Labs building at 2293 Verus Street: a two-story renovated warehouse with tall windows and a fountain by the entry.

// The bet

The tools to build real products shouldn’t take a warehouse and a loan to reach. They should take a key.

Atlas isn’t trying to be the cheapest desk in town or the biggest name in coworking. It’s a working shop first — built around the machines, the materials, and the people actually making things — and everything else on the property exists to keep them building.

Atlas will measure itself by what leaves the building: prototypes that become products, companies that outgrow us and take a floor of their own, and makers who learn a machine here they’d never have touched otherwise.

// What the place is built on

A few things we won’t compromise on.

Accessible by design

The whole reason Atlas exists: the machines to build real products, without buying a building full of them. A membership and a checkout, not a capital raise.

Safety, every time

Every plan starts with a safety orientation, and every machine has its own checkout before you run it solo. No shortcuts — and we’ll teach you.

You own what you make

Atlas takes no licenses and no cut. The prototypes, the products, and the company are yours, completely.

Learn by doing

No experience required. Bring a project, get checked out on the tools it needs, and build the real thing — not a practice version of it.

Built for companies too

Atlas exists because a company needed it. The floor takes a product from first prototype to first production run, and lets a team grow without having to leave.

A floor, not a fortress

Month-to-month, no long contracts, no gatekeeping. The barrier to making something here should be your idea — not the paperwork.