This year hasn’t been the kindest to coding schools. Over the summer, two of them — Dev Bootcamp and The Iron Yard — closed.

But WeWork is still bullish on their potential, apparently. This week, the coworking giant announced its acquisition of the Flatiron School. The Flatiron School, for now, only has one location, in lower Manhattan, but as its web page detailing the acquisition indicates, that will eventually change. Adam Enbar, the cofounder of the Flatiron School, told Technical.ly that future schools will be located within WeWork locations.

WeWork has several locations in Brooklyn. Could the borough, then, become the site of a bootcamp boomlet? The company hasn’t yet announced where future locations will open. But there are indications that the learn-to-code movement is gaining a foothold in Brooklyn. General Assembly has previously announced plans to open a Brooklyn campus. Per Scholas, the nonprofit that provides free tech and IT training to people from underserved communities, opened a location in the Pfizer Building last year.

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