Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Writing in yesterday's Washington Post, Joel Garreau (Edge City, Radical Evolution) collects ideas from several accomplished designer and developer types on how to reshape old big-box retail stores into spaces more suited to the 21st-century. It's a subject I've...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Over the weekend my colleague on the LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee, Ken Potts, e-mailed me and others about another of the country’s historic movie houses at risk of demolition. It wouldn’t take all that much money to save it: ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
So, as I was writing yesterday, when the economy was ready, so was Asheville’s downtown. They did it right. Today, most all the places I knew as a kid are still there, but now serving 21st-century functions: I can...continued→
