Posts tagged Big Box Reuse
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Breakfast links: Watch out
A new low; New bus bunching watchdog; Obama park?; Dangerous or uninformed?; If all spending were that dumb, we’d all agree to cut it; Portland to copy us; Boo for ghostboxes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running away with it
What about those old car dealerships?; Navarro wins; Transit bait-and-switch; MARC gives the wrong information; Gas prices going up; Outdoor classrooms; What a robbery looks like. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: SmarTrip, the environment, Japan, and more
SmarTrip Web reload, autoload coming; Metro MasterCard: priceless?; Chicago real-time bus info spurs app competition; Environmentalist except in your backyard; Break out the white paint; Japan’s roads to nowhere; Streets are different in Japan, too; Lewis, Kojo talk big box reuse; Navarro probably wins District 4; Arts event for city’s elite excludes emerging arts. Keep reading…
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Thinking inside the box: Reusing Ward 5’s empty big boxes
Julia Christensen has become the authority on adaptive community reuse of empty big box stores with her 6-year project and now recent book, Big Box Reuse. Empty stores have transformed into community centers, museums, charter schools, markets, and more. While Christensen’s project focuses primarily on the suburban landscape, we are dealing with a similar loss in DC’s… Keep reading…