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London’s cultural crisis hotline is rescuing studios, theatres and music venues from closure – and New York is taking notice. Could this be the future of urban creative survival?
Ken Ikeda, CEO of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), leverages San Francisco’s plummeting commercial real estate values to secure long-term spaces for arts and cultural organizations.
The Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) has secured a lease to transform San Francisco’s long-vacant Pier 29 into the city’s largest artist studio and exhibition space, aiming to revitalize the waterfront and provide affordable, creative space amid downtown’s commercial downturn.
Arts trust and KALW public radio team up to buy a Mid-Market office building to create an arts and culture hub
CAST provides art organizations a pathway to property ownership, giving artists much-needed space to create and displaytheir work
Public media outlet KALW moves into an office space above the Warfield Theatre as result of partnering with arts trust to buy building
November 2013 – Former SF Mayor Edwin M. Lee along with former Director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (SFOEWD) Joaquin Torres (far left) and former District Six Supervisor Jane Kim (middle) joined newly formed CAST to announce the purchase of two arts buildings for CounterPulse and the Luggage Store in the Mid-Market and the Tenderloin neighborhoods.
