Diamond in the rough - Just Bar Thoughts

For these two weeks, we started to compile data and research for our presentation last Friday. Most notably, the first week was when we spoke to Cal and Nick (Chestnut Housing board members). From their feedback, we realized that for Chestnut housing to undertake another social mission (having a community center) along with their affordable housing mission was not feasible. From speaking with Cal, we realized that there were different viewpoints throughout the board and that having the space become a community center was just a vision to some parts of the board, while others wanted to be able to use the bar as a space to fund their main mission which is affordable housing. Cal gave us amazing resources such as the layout for the bar as well as what the bar can realistically become. From speaking to Nick, we were able to get a well rounded perspective on the bar. For a while after the meetings we thought that we would just be tasked with finding a renter for the space, and that's no fun at all. We decided to play it 50/50. So keep aligned with the board members' views, we're focusing our resources on finding a tenant interested in the bar space. Although our primary object has changed gears from designed a space to finding a business, we're still more focused in trying to convert this space to give back to the community somehow. That's why while looking for potential candidates, an emphasis will be given towards business plans that are geared to the community rather than something like a bodge/corner store/barbershop - esque store.

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