Kent 2006

While operating out of a Meeker Street storefront, Storefront Studio created goals that linked design ideas for economic growth to the existing community assets.  After Community and City input, archive research, and extensive fieldwork, the Studio identified a list of Kent’s physical and social assets.  By studying potentials of individual opportunities, a collective set of Kent’s characteristic strengths and opportunities emerged.

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  The Studio sought to provide stronger connections between the two main axis by reinforcing street edges, creating pedestrian bridge between relocated depot and new transit system, reorganizing library parking and increasing visibility of library.
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  Proposed library reading room
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  Proposed depot
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  Depot designs
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  The overall scheme for the Post Office block would enhance greenspace, reinforce existing downtown assets, connect green spaces, find dual-use for parking lots, increase the number of residential units, and maintain commercial storefronts.
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  Existing market space
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  Market space, after
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  Cafe M designs
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  Color studies along alley facade
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  Proposed intervention along railroad alley
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  Seed project
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  Post office block during different uses
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  Historic and existing bookshop
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  Proposed bookshop
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  Meeker Building before
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  Meeker Building, after
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  Meeker building - green passage
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  Meeker building at night