Monument Lab app expands space and time at Art Museum steps
The tour begins with a twinkling of chimes, as Ursula Rucker, the Philadelphia poet and artist, materializes on a smartphone screen. She stands at the base of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps “the Rocky Steps, as some like to call them,” she says. “The people’s place.” As one scans their phone around the steps, and look out across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, virtual signs, maps, photographs, and text boxes appear, an invite to “dig deeper” into the history of the space. The OverTime app features poet and artist Ursula Rucker at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Image: Courtesy Monument Lab)
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Newark Launches Land Bank to Revive Long-Vacant Properties
The land bank will assess proposals for the sale and redevelopment of 100 city-owned properties in neglected neighborhoods. March 7, 2021, 7am PST | Diana Ionescu |
Following in the steps of other cities in the eastern United States, Newark has launched a land bank aimed at reducing blight and activating vacant and abandoned properties, writes Jared Brey in Next City. Managed by Invest Newark, the land bank is now accepting bids and proposals for around 100 vacant lots and buildings formerly under city ownership.
Generally managed by a non-profit or government agency, a land bank is designed to expedite the sale and redevelopment of vacant and blighted properties. Invest Newark hopes the land bank will extend the revitalization of Newark’s downtown out into its neighborhoods, promote business ownership, create opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses and contractors, establish new parks and green sp
Boise Using Adaptive Reuse to Convert Offices to Affordable Housing
Under the city s Grow Our Housing program, vacant offices could see a new life as below-market rentals. February 19, 2021, 6am PST | Diana Ionescu |
Boise officials are considering buying a downtown office building and converting it into affordable housing. Jared Brey reports on the city s plan to create below-market rental housing by employing adaptive reuse to convert former office and commercial buildings to apartments.
Leon Letson, manager for the city s Grow Our Housing program, emphasized that the city is still working on the first acquisition and considering a variety of options for the future, including vacant land and existing buildings, to create more housing at less cost than new construction. The city would purchase the building for its affordable housing land trust and partner with a developer for the conversion. According to Letson, Boise s vacant offices are often ideally situated and provide