Bartc
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This is desperately needed everywhere, and there are abandoned useful structures in so many places that could be converted if anyone took the time and the resources: Art+Water space
Here's something every community should have
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Terri
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Maybe in San Francisco. A tad extreme!
Bartc
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Bongo, I'm not a fan of the school aspect unless they enlarge the student population. The $400K was probably a misprint or an editor missed it, more like $40K.
Regardless, my point is that there are unused facilities all over the US in urban and rural areas that would be suitable for artist galleries, collectives, workshops, etc. And where there are artists the visitors start to come, the community starts to thrive, and real estate values grow in value. Sadly, they often then become gentrified and unaffordable for the original artists, but in the meantime you get a decade or more of art usage we sorely need today.
What does the average artist need? Space to work and space to hang for viewing, desperately!
Such buildings, if put to this use, benefit everyone, even if the guys running this one in SF are a bit off the mark.
Regardless, my point is that there are unused facilities all over the US in urban and rural areas that would be suitable for artist galleries, collectives, workshops, etc. And where there are artists the visitors start to come, the community starts to thrive, and real estate values grow in value. Sadly, they often then become gentrified and unaffordable for the original artists, but in the meantime you get a decade or more of art usage we sorely need today.
What does the average artist need? Space to work and space to hang for viewing, desperately!
Such buildings, if put to this use, benefit everyone, even if the guys running this one in SF are a bit off the mark.
