Tijuana: From Sin City to Mexican Technology Hub? CNN
go to original June 4, 2015

Tijuana is providing communal working space for professionals. CNN's John Defterios reports. (CNN)

These days, Tijuana is looking to swing to a different beat. Front and center of this effort is the bus station which is now home to a dynamic tech cluster of international companies such as Uber and Yelp.

"All this strip used to be very vibrant and energetic," said Miguel Buenrostro, who helped to lead the bus station restoration project of downtown Tijauna. "When we talked to the owners we knew there was a possibility we could do an intervention on these spaces and create vibrancy again by gathering up a community of people," he noted.

The community they decided to target was Tijuana's emerging tech industry and its need for shared offices. Soon after, HUBSTN (short for Hub Station), a place where aspiring tech firms and established international companies alike could set up shop, was born.

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