{"id":2930,"date":"2012-03-29T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:20:13","slug":"branding-or-building-a-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/03\/branding-or-building-a-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Branding or Building a Neighborhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developers in D.C. are proposing a “pop-up” restaurant on a vacant U Street lot that would be constructed out of shipping containers and there are a lot of good questions about whether this is a good or bad thing. Online commenters <\/a>wonder whether this is cool urbanism or just a descent into third world, make-do architecture.<\/p>\n

Looking at other examples, in London<\/a> and New York<\/a>, it seems these are a retail opportunity for branding,\u00a0 and by-the-way, an urban pheonmenon. London’s very cool Shoreditch box park describes itself as “low-cost, low-risk, unique, and flexible,” meant to draw tenants like local artists\u00a0and artisanal manufacturers.<\/p>\n

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boxes full of nothing you really need<\/p><\/div>\n

At New York’s Dekalb Market, tenants are a roster of hipster cliches from an excessive number of bakeries to dog apparel. But\u00a0tenants at Shoreditch also include some mainstream retailers like Levi’s and Oakley, and that ultimate example of suburban blandess–Dockers–a company clearly looking to introduce themselves to a new market in a very particular way.<\/p>\n

And the branding works for the retail development as well. Would shoppers and residents be as excited if the box parks included very quotidien uses like auto repair and dry cleaners? And what about institutional or resdential uses? Would you live in one if your actual home hadn’t been lost in a natural disaster?<\/p>\n

Another box park is proposed at D.C.’s Nationals Stadium<\/a>, where every square foot must be monetized to make the franchise profitable. A new, cool look may attract shoppers beyond baseball fans. One online commenter made a pitch for a kids play-space so parents can kick back before the game.<\/p>\n

First it was malls, then reconstructed main streets, now it’s box parks, anythign to keep the retail experience fresh.\u00a0Or you could just stay home and shop online!<\/p>\n

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Developers in D.C. are proposing a “pop-up” restaurant on a vacant U Street lot that would be constructed out of shipping containers and there are a lot of good questions about whether this is a good or bad thing. Online commenters wonder whether this is cool urbanism or just a descent into third world, make-do architecture.<\/p>\n

Looking at other examples, in London and New York, it seems these are a retail opportunity for branding,\u00a0 and by-the-way, an urban pheonmenon. London’s very cool Shoreditch box park describes itself as “low-cost, low-risk, unique, and flexible,” meant to draw tenants like local artists\u00a0and artisanal manufacturers.<\/p>\n

At New York’s Dekalb Market, tenants are a roster of hipster cliches from an excessive number of … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[388,391,389,392,386,387,390],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","tag-dekalb-market","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-nationals-park","tag-pop-up-retail","tag-shipping-containers","tag-shoredithc","tag-u-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}