Comment 59586

By Meredith (registered) - website | Posted February 11, 2011 at 16:25:49

It can't be that difficult to start a simple site/group with the purpose of concentrating and clustering investment in local areas, even multiple people on one property -- but not a skillset I possess.

Something as simple as entering your street boundaries where you're looking to set up, what you're looking to do, and the type of partnership you're looking for (renting/buying, one person to share an office with, ten people to set up a co-op) is a good start. It could catalyze live/work spaces too, or setups with separate tenants where both the upstairs residential and downstairs business tenants are invested in the space.

Then simply mapping that information for people coming in to see would also be valuable - what type of business/setup is done, what improvements have been made, what's yet to come, timeline, and what, if anything, is holding them back from further improvement and how the adjacent/proximal buildings are.

Again, not my particular skill... but I can see a few ways this could work easily/simply for the city. Even in the face of those protesting that concentrating or being intentional about investment in neighbourhoods is auto-gentrification-horriblenesss.

Comment edited by Meredith on 2011-02-11 16:28:43

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