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Property Owners: Activate your space
Your property can support creative enterprise, cultural activity, neighborhood vitality, and revenue-generating interim use. Space in the Gap partners with property owners to activate underutilized commercial spaces, improve their condition, and prepare them for successful occupancy. Our goal is to make leasing easier for owners while enhancing the value, presentation, and rental appeal of the spaces we manage and/or temporarily lease.
Placemaking - Economic Development - Commercial Leasing Strategy - Cultural Production Community Wealth Building - Small Creative Business Incubator
Space in the Gap Mission:
Provide affordable commercial space to small creative businesses, enabling communities to thrive.
Benefits for property owners, municipalities, shopping centers:
- Bring back disenfranchised artists, small businesses & organizations.
- New cultural attractions to promote regional & local tourism.
- Ability to inject newly targeted content into districts & shopping centers bolstering stakeholder goals.
- Low risk, insured, waivers, clean record.
- New opportunities for artists/artisans and makers.
- Revenue to owners from previously underused spaces.
- Transform/ stage locations: beautification and blight mitigation.
- Transform or maintain the perception of an area: best of shopping & cultural experience.
- Turnkey programs delivered to property owners.
- Valuable part of your leasing strategy.
- Visitors to properties, increase foot traffic.
PROGRAMS
REVENUE GENERATING
MAKER SG: Artist studios. Artist co-working space. Photo studios. DETAILS
MARKET SG: Artisan Marketplaces Pop-Ups CURATE by Space in the Gap. Indoor vendor markets hosted, co-hosted and produced. DETAILS
INCUBATE SG: Small Creative Business
RESIDENCY SG: Space for a set amount of time for small creative business, pop-up shop (1-6 months).
NON REVENUE GENERATING
GALLERY SG: Transforming vacant storefronts into temporary public art galleries and window installations. This program is produced in collaboration with Phantom Galleries LA. DETAILS
RESIDENCY SG VISUAL ARTS: Artists create and exhibit work for a set period of time in a space (2-6 months). DETAILS
STAGING PROPERTIES
We renovate properties, ensuring they are left in superior condition for long-term tenants.
Below are images showcasing some of our previous projects and the staging of these properties.
Shopping Centers, Owners & Brokers Brochure -link-
Experience:
Since 2005, our affiliated organizations have successful served and sustained Southern California's vibrant artist community by: Providing temporary space in over 140 locations, to over 9,000 artists & organizations, hosting thousands of free public art events while reaching an audience of tens of thousands. We have helped to lease spaces, incubated new businesses, transformed communities and have been covered in numerous publications. We have started and participated in successful art walks in many cities including Downtown LA, Long Beach, Miracle Mile and Mission Viejo.
Space in the Gap brings together Placemaking, Economic Development, and Interim Space Management to create value for property owners and communities.
Strategic Interim Use: Put underutilized space to productive use while a property is marketed, awaiting redevelopment, or transitioning between tenants.
Placemaking and Neighborhood Vitality: Introduce creative activity, public-facing experiences, and locally relevant programming that give commercial spaces a visible purpose.
Economic Development: Create opportunities for small businesses, independent makers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs to test ideas, reach customers, and build their enterprises.
Blight Mitigation and Positive Perception: Help address the visual and social effects of prolonged vacancies by bringing appropriate activity and attention to inactive storefronts.
Flexible Activation Strategies: Match programming to the property's condition, location, permitted uses, available infrastructure, and anticipated timeline.
A Managed Partnership: Coordinate programming, participants, installation, operations, and removal in accordance with the terms established with the property owner.
Making productive use of commercial vacancies for
Shopping Centers, Municipalities and Property owners since 2005.
