in River North, the high -
rent gallery district west of Michigan Avenue.
Not exact matches
By some accounts, Google's 2010 purchase of the onetime Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Avenue, which occupies an entire city block, drove up commercial
rents in the area, but this is a 10 - to -15-minute walk to the heart of the art
district, an eternity when it comes to the storefronts that appeal to
galleries.
As the new Whitney Museum opens in the Meatpacking
District and
rents in the surrounding area reach new heights, Chelsea's big
galleries are upping...
Rather, it's divided into three major areas: Downtown / SoMa, where SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Fraenkel
Gallery, and other arts spaces have huddled together for years, but where rising
rents have forced out many longtime
galleries; the Dogpatch / Potrero area, where Minnesota Street Project joins Brian Gross Fine Art, Catharine Clark
Gallery, Museum of Craft and Design, and other recent transplants; and the Richmond
District's environs, where the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor have existed for many decades.
Fifteen years after Magdalena Sawon moved her Postmasters
Gallery to Manhattan's Chelsea
district from SoHo, the art dealer is heading back downtown because her
rent is about to double.
After 1970, areas like Downtown, East Los Angeles, and Mid-City, where studio
rent for young artists was most affordable, quickly became alternative space neighborhoods, such as LACE and Womanspace, and later, REDCAT and the Chinatown
Gallery district.
In June, a new local policy banning private entities from
renting state - owned property meant BANK was evicted from its previous
gallery space — the Union Bank building near Shanghai's Bund
district that gave the
gallery its name.
Gallery central has shifted to the South End's SoWa
District, where developer GTI Properties has courted art
galleries and boutiques with lower
rents, easier parking, a pedestrian thoroughfare, and a popular monthly First Friday communal opening reception.