Archinect - News 2024-05-01T20:12:18-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/86248875/the-pop-up-activist-of-the-lower-east-side The Pop-Up Activist of the Lower East Side anthony dong 2013-11-10T23:44:00-05:00 >2013-11-11T17:07:08-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/h5/h50fewbbch7loql0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Eric Ho watches the boom on the Lower East Side...and sees...Detroit. Specifically...vacant storefronts &mdash; more than 200 of them in the area east of the Bowery and south of 14th Street. How was it possible, he thought, that in a neighborhood where space was at such a premium, so much of it was sitting idle? ...an architect who once intended to design housing for disaster zones,, he thought: What could be done with them?</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>