A neighborhood scale consignment grocery store that offers fresh food daily from a rotating set of local farmers and locally produced minimally processed pantry goods
Sharing commercial kitchens during restaurant off hours with entrepreneurs for extra income and low cost space
Lease commercial buildings for the cost of taxes, insurance and utilities, with small, low/no-interest and/or forgivable fix-up loans from the city to minimally improve the structure (exterior, utilities, HVAC, efficiency), and let the occupants do their own non-structural interior improvements with found/recycled/reclaimed/re-purposed/constructed materials; many buildings have not liens (mortgage/loans) against them and would not take much to make inhabitable. Lease/option for 5-10 years in exchange for improving and maintaining the building.
If you could have your own commercial space (up to 1,000 square feet) for the cost of taxes, utilities, insurance, and fix-up loan payment, but were responsible for creating all the interior improvements for 5-10 years, what would you do with it? Do you think you could be creative enough to with found/recycled/reclaimed/re-purposed/constructed materials to create the kind of space others would want to work/hang out/chill in? Would you create something to sell, give away, share, or display? How would your space benefit the neighborhood and community?
Is there a restaurant in the country that you could eat at for all your meals and it would be balanced over the whole day with the proper servings of fruits and vegetables, proteins, vitamins, minerals, micro-nutrients, and minimal amount of clean fats?
A campaign with a small group of like-minded people to scout out neighborhoods in central and east Phoenix (I-17, airport, Bethany Home/Camelback mtn, Scottsdale) to identify commercial buildings that can be put to good use, contact the owners, evaluate financial commitment of owner, setup lease/options for 5-10 years with lease covering taxes, insurance, utilities, and improvement loan for structural fixes from the city (low/no-interest/forgivable), and install entrepreneurs, neighborhood teams, or groups to occupy and improve the space.
Drive-able plaza oriented toward pedestrian in front of suburban style buildings on major roads: B of A branch on Camelback at 1st St
How historic neighborhoods can keep their historic roots while breathing life of new branches mixed in; context, scale, proportion, intensity, housing options
A perfect home for a gen Y-er? Phase I: A studio above the garage; Phase II: a duplex that can be rented out until the studio is too small and rent out studio; Phase III: convert the duplex into a single family home; Phase IV: use studio as office, in-law suite, multi-purpose room, boomerang/college age child apt
Complete Green Streets as a network of public pathways for all transportation methods, with pedestrian and non-motorized as highest priority to single occupancy, motorized as accommodated
Green and tree vacant city owned lots with nurseries paying for the plants, maintenance, and water, and the city assuming liability, and let the nursery get the profits/revenue when they are sold. Neighborhood gardens can be planted under and around the trees providing a more temperate environment to grow plants.
Solar Decathlon team turns entry building into top of SXS duplex in hosting city: duplex is a great way to maximize density while maintaining scale, character, and relationship to surrounding neighborhood; allowing entry building to stay in host city reduces emissions from transportation back to entrants area; demonstration building becomes a real world live in structure that practices what it preaches.
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