Parking Space Pivot
Wilmington Parklet Project
When COVID-19 upturned the restaurant industry this year, cities got creative with ways to encourage safer outdoor dining. Wilmington, NC explored the idea of creating temporary “parklets,” or reclaimed spaces from street parking, to expand dining spaces and support restaurants in continuing to serve their patrons outdoors. LS3P worked with the city to generate dining concepts and identify potential parklet locations adjacent to participating restaurant establishments. In Charleston, the design is also underway for an LS3P submission to AIA Charleston’s “sPARKing” Competition to explore “possibilities for expansion of the public realm in a 7x22 parking space.”