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Artist Space Guide

Creative Spaces Development & Management Guide

These pages are designed to help you think through the process of creating and preserving affordable artist spaces. This guide can be applied to a variety of creative spaces such as maker space, incubator space, rehearsal space, communal kitchens, and more. For simplicity’s sake, we refer to all these types of spaces as “artist space”.

The process of real estate acquisition and development is challenging for anyone, even those with years of experience. The following resources will help both novices and experts navigate the many aspects of real estate acquisition, finance, development, and management.

 

Getting Started

Getting Started
Making the case in your community, Is this building right for artists?, Acquisition checklist

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Leasing/Owning

Leasing/Owning
Residential and commercial leases, Co-ops and condo structures

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Zoning, Code & Permitting

Zoning, Code & Permitting
An established process for quality control and code compliance

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Financing

Financing
Resources to connect you with existing spaces or to help develop new spaces

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Design & Construction

Design & Construction
Phases of the design-build process, Working with architects, Builders and the code

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Managing

Managing
Marketing, Selling/Leasing space, Subletting, Governance, Taxes

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