Monthly Archive:: November 2004

Charrette lays out vision for Detroit: The first ever beta community that allowed future tenants to design a

Emerging retail report: What are the most successful trends in retail for the creative class?
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Loft housing report: What are the latest trends in loft housing? Which cities are leading
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A CoolTown block in Ohio: The following is a story from an emerging progressive developer in Ohio,

Legalize this: The neighborhoods we really want are illegal. Really. Creative people are taking
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Blank slate for a CoolTown beta community in Detroit: Some people in Detroit got tired of seeing more strip malls, subdivisions
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Is this a bookstore? Ice cream shop? Art gallery? Coffeehouse?: How about a bookstore, ice cream, art gallery coffeehouse. That properly describes
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Trading Spaces for Towns?: Trading Spaces Designer Genevieve Gorder to Host New TLC Series That’s right
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What are the different types of lofts?: Bi-Level/New York-Style/Artist Lofts These units have lofted bedrooms and no interior walls.
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What is a loft and where did it come from?: A loft was originally defined as a small space built above a
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Convertible housing in Seattle?: A lot of us enjoy driving or riding in a convertible, feeling
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Next generation urban housing: Urban housing for the 75%+ of the country’s households that aren’t married
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The next coffeehouse – the teahouse?: Time Magazine wrote, “The old drink is having a comeback, in restaurants,

Darwin’s – A one-stop third place: Just outside Harvard Square, Cambridge, you may happen upon a crowd of

Every neighborhood needs a third place: There’s home, there’s work, then there’s the third place. Just like with