April 2012 Blog Posts (9)

We have a lot of work to do leading up to the closing presentation on Tuesday evening. We've made some great progress and some incredible ideas have been presented regarding the future of the Granary. These ideas have been driven by our Neighborhood Narrative, which is…

I heard about this on the radio this morning. I thought there may be a few current and prospective tenants of The Granary that would be interested. Its free and open to the public but space is limited.

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Leaving goodies (invitations to the charrette) for neighborhood residents, businesses and property owners. Wanna co-design your future neighborhood? Then come! Details…

For the detailed session explanations, go here.

It's going to be held at 426 West 700 South in the Granary District.

Click here for the detailed agenda, and don't forget to RSVP at the linked Facebook event page, and invite others!

Schweeb was designd as a self-powered monorail technology for dense / urban landscapes (specifically Tokyo).  Imagine if the Granary had a transportation network like this and eventually connected to downtown?  I think it would be very interesting and useful!

Had some really good discussion about how to incorporate and promote bike infrastructure and culture in the Granary District at our last klatch in the Pickle Factory.

Some other brainstorming ideas that were brought up were:

The coffee klatch raised the idea of bicycle arterials. Bill Nye says that the cities of the future will be bicycle friendly, way bicycle friendly:

Copenhagen - City of Cyclists from Copenhagenize on Vimeo.