Indoor Market Space and Grocery Store
Weather permitting, there are outdoor farmers market events in the adjacent empty lot next to the Amaranth Bakery. These market events are usually cancelled at the mere suggestion of rain as participants and market goers are weary at the prospect of getting wet. Providing indoor market space would make these events a more consistent and reliable event and attraction.
"Food Desert" is a term to describe a shortage of proper places for residence in urban areas to buy food. The Washington Park neighborhood, like so many neighborhoods around the country, can be described as a food desert. So in the programing and ideation of a development a grocery store was included.
The form and structural system of this development, allows its purpose/use to change as the surrounding neighborhood evolves over time. This makes it a wise investment as the building will maintain it's
financial value.
"Food Desert" is a term to describe a shortage of proper places for residence in urban areas to buy food. The Washington Park neighborhood, like so many neighborhoods around the country, can be described as a food desert. So in the programing and ideation of a development a grocery store was included.
The form and structural system of this development, allows its purpose/use to change as the surrounding neighborhood evolves over time. This makes it a wise investment as the building will maintain it's
financial value.