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The Lab in Orange County is an interesting precedent to bring up. I have been there, and I think it's a really interesting attempt at placemaking (particularly geared to the "alternative" crowd) in a retail environment otherwise set up for high-end and/or mass-market consumers (it's maybe 2 miles from South Coast Plaza, which is like Tysons Corner Center but even bigger). It started as a mall (or "anti-mall") but the developer (and the city of Costa Mesa)'s goal is to turn it into a catalyst for creating an artist community.

This isn't really an urban precedent so much as a suburban one, so I'm not sure how it could be applied to Georgetown. The developer, Shaheen Sadeghi, did do a similar project in Hollywood that might be worth looking at - though you could call it a Cady's Alley with Urban Outfitters instead of furniture stores.

by dan reed! on Sep 18, 2012 12:25 pm • link • report

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