My comrade-in-arms Paul Nagle has just published a paper on the economics of live/work space for artists in cities. Room for Creativity: The Role of Affordable Artists’ Live/Work Space in the New Economy is a short and accessible version of his much longer and denser thesis on the same subject. If you’re interested [...]
The NY Times reported this morning that three New York non-profits have landed long-term leases in downtown Manhattan for $1/year. Poets House, the New York Public Library, and Mercy Corps are the lucky recipients of this bounty from the Battery Park City Authority.
For a smallish organization like Poets House, this is the kind of [...]
I’ve been following a bill in the NY State legislature which would mandate that the state arts council start making modest grants to individual artists for the purpose of procuring live-work space. The bill recently passed in both the Assembly and the Senate, which means it’ll soon be headed to the Governer’s desk for [...]
This piece originally appeared as an article in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on January 15, 2007.Last September an RFP came across my desk from Two Trees Management, a commercial real estate developer in New York. It offered a 6,000 square foot theatre in Brooklyn for free for 10 years if applicants committed to developing the [...]
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