Submitted by tjnorris on Fri, 06/16/2006 - 7:57pm.
Live/Work Space:
It would seem to me that the most important areas to tap into range in value liberally but among them include:
- Sizable spaces that are zoned for live/work/retail that can renew/reuse/rehab current City-owned properties perhaps.
- Live/Work inustrial condo/space for mid-career artists who want to settle down and own a part of their neighborhood, building a community (like Fort Point Channel or the Brickbottom - both in Boston). Maybe the city can acknowledge the vlue by cooperating in some way with saavy investors who would want to see something like this happen.
- Explore the balance between real artist incomes and equitable rental costs - as Portland has seemed for a long while to have artificially deflated salaries, while housing prices skyrocket - if there were some type of incentive programs through the City (possibly in combination with RACC, and maybe even the Portland Art Center), maybe we can start to see some headwway in the future.
- Tap into the resources of prime industries and businesses in the Willamette River Valley, locate places that are within the city limits, though have been vacant for too long. Find innovative ways to approach collaborative ownership of such spaces. With involvement from the City something can actually get going. Collaborative type spaces are important for people who are seeking like environments (foundries for metalwork, kiln/glass blowing spaces, darkroom or printing facilities, etc).
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Live/Work Space: It would
Live/Work Space:
It would seem to me that the most important areas to tap into range in value liberally but among them include:
- Sizable spaces that are zoned for live/work/retail that can renew/reuse/rehab current City-owned properties perhaps.
- Live/Work inustrial condo/space for mid-career artists who want to settle down and own a part of their neighborhood, building a community (like Fort Point Channel or the Brickbottom - both in Boston). Maybe the city can acknowledge the vlue by cooperating in some way with saavy investors who would want to see something like this happen.
- Explore the balance between real artist incomes and equitable rental costs - as Portland has seemed for a long while to have artificially deflated salaries, while housing prices skyrocket - if there were some type of incentive programs through the City (possibly in combination with RACC, and maybe even the Portland Art Center), maybe we can start to see some headwway in the future.
- Tap into the resources of prime industries and businesses in the Willamette River Valley, locate places that are within the city limits, though have been vacant for too long. Find innovative ways to approach collaborative ownership of such spaces. With involvement from the City something can actually get going. Collaborative type spaces are important for people who are seeking like environments (foundries for metalwork, kiln/glass blowing spaces, darkroom or printing facilities, etc).