Very cool to see this creative use. For something similar, last time I was in London, I checked out the Bermondsey Beer Mile (https://www.bermondsey-beer-mile.co.uk/), a whole string of craft brewers using the spaces underneath a set of elevated train tracks. While walking around that area, also noticed some other small businesses under the tracks, like car repair shops.
Unique and productive uses of space are so cool. (I like when there are informal businesses set up in parking lots, for example. Some people find that unpleasant or unseemly or something, but it's just people doing what people have always done in a built environment that doesn't work with them.)
I love these, too. Having grown up overseas I am very used to seeing retail spaces carved out of anything - bridge overpasses, stairway niches, wide spaces in a sidewalk - I like my landscape muddled.
Not quite the same energy, but I think you'll enjoy my neighborhood's contribution to this sort of "creative" interactions with the roadways:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/05/24/local-news/how-did-star-market-end-over-massachusetts-turnpike
Wow, what a story. I might have to feature that one week!
It's super neat, we don't drive out of the city much but it's always Right There when we do :)
Very cool to see this creative use. For something similar, last time I was in London, I checked out the Bermondsey Beer Mile (https://www.bermondsey-beer-mile.co.uk/), a whole string of craft brewers using the spaces underneath a set of elevated train tracks. While walking around that area, also noticed some other small businesses under the tracks, like car repair shops.
Unique and productive uses of space are so cool. (I like when there are informal businesses set up in parking lots, for example. Some people find that unpleasant or unseemly or something, but it's just people doing what people have always done in a built environment that doesn't work with them.)
I love these, too. Having grown up overseas I am very used to seeing retail spaces carved out of anything - bridge overpasses, stairway niches, wide spaces in a sidewalk - I like my landscape muddled.