The much awaited Tashiro Kaplan Building in Seattle officially opens on Thursday, marking a significant step towards establishing a balanced downtown community in Seattle:
“By now it's an old story: Artists who move into cheap neighborhoods fix them up only to be kicked out when property values climb thanks to their efforts. Tashiro Kaplan Artists Lofts at 115 Prefontaine Place S. are part of a wave of projects around the country that are rewriting the ending of that story, giving artists rent-controlled places to work and live.” - Seattle Post Intelligencer
It was only last July that the Groundbreaking Ceremony took place, and the impact to the community has already been positive for many artists.
Click Here (PDF) For an interesting article on how bleak the outlook was for Artist space in Seattle before the tech bust...
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congrats! seems like a cool project. any model for permanent affordability, or evolution of rent control, land trusts, increasing the capacity of non-prof's, etc, is of great interest to me. I am working on a surplus land initiative here in SF with hopes of developing a similar project for homeless artists. Any other similar projects there you can point me to?
Bryan,
Cathryn Vandenbrink has really worked hard on that project, and is very active on the issues you mentioned here in Seattle. I can put you in touch with a couple of people in Seattle pursuing related work, such as co-op housing, cottage housing. There is another similar project which you might also check ou:
http://www.artsbrewery.com/
Send me an email to remind me to get you some contact info...
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