Vote – Strip / Appeal Competition – "Finalist projects reinventing the strip mall"
“In many neighborhoods across North America, small 5-8 store strip-malls, once anchors of local retail activity, have become today’s suburban blights: envisioned as community hubs of consumption and services, many of these places are being abandoned, becoming underutilized and dilapidated as the services move out of local neighborhoods in favour of larger-scale shopping districts serving greater catchment areas.
Strip Appeal is an ideas design competition, and travelling exhibit, intended to stimulate and showcase creative design proposals for the adaptive reuse of small-scale strip-malls.
We ask: How might the small-scale strip be reinvented and redeveloped to local advantage?
With creative thinking and design experimentation, we believe there are many ways to transform these ever-present yet ailing built forms to promote walkability, sustainability and community as suburban experience.”
Deadline to vote: January 17 2012.
To vote for one of the finalist projects…
(Source: Carole Lévesque, Co-Finalist, Park(ed) Mall Project)
Strip Appeal, film and music by Nadir Bellahmer from merle patchett on Vimeo.