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The layout of the showroom offers the customer a chance to explore the different options that can help create the perfect space in their home. That might be a kitchen, utility room, bedroom, home office or even a boot room! At Creating Spaces Group we also recognize people have differing budgets available. Our ranges offer something for all.

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At no other point in memory has the restaurant industry had to go through so much adversity and change. But history also teaches us there’s no better time to imagine a completely new way of doing things. Today, we have the chance to build a future better than anything we had before… but we have to do it together.

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This is why we do what we do. RestaurantSpaces has become a place that the industry’s boldest leaders in development, design, and technology can truly collaborate and explore the great unknown ahead.

Shying away from the impersonal nature of traditional conferences and trade shows, our intimate gathering is carefully curated and conducive to forging meaningful relationships and the spread of big ideas.

Who Attends?

Given the intimate format and strategic focus of the retreat, RestaurantSpaces is limited to senior leadership from the world’s top restaurant chains. Those with responsibility/influence over store development and technology.

Job Titles Include

CEO, COO.

Chief Development Officer, VP of Design & Construction, VP of Architecture & Engineering, VP of Innovation.

Chief Information Officer, CTO, SVP of Information Technology, VP of Technology, VP of Information Systems.

“It’s intimate, it’s personal, you can actually talk about things… I think you’ve got a winner.”
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influence group produces invite-only leadership forums.

The opposite of a trade show, influence events are intimate, personable and centered around building meaningful relationships.

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What exactly makes a public space great? You know a great public space when you experience it. Vibrant public spaces are active places filled with people from all walks of life. But what are the features most commonly found in the best public spaces?

I will attempt to answer that question in this blog post. I could be wrong about these 5 characteristics, but I do know one thing: it has little to do with pretty landscaping, fountains, or park benches. You can tell me what you think in the comment section. Here goes…

Feature #1 of Great Public Spaces: They are small

Market Square: Pittsburgh, PA (Photo Credit: Project for Public Spaces)

This is perhaps the biggest mistake that municipal park designers and urban planners make, probably because it’s so counter-intuitive. If you’re an urban planner, chances are you don’t wake up in the morning and say, “We have too much green space. The parks in my community are too big. We need to shrink them!”.

Yet, that’s exactly what is needed to re-activate many of the parks in our urban areas, especially the parks and plazas located in or near downtowns. In fact, some our nation’s most treasured public spaces are quite small, and owe much of their success to their limited proportions. Here are a few examples:

San Antonio’s Riverwalk is quite narrow. The river itself is only 25-40 feet wide, more narrow than a typical city street, and the walkways themselves are much more narrow.
New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, the public space that holds the famous ice skating rink in winter months, occupies only a small fraction of one city block.
New York’s Paley Park in Midtown Manhattan is a tiny public space at only 4,200 square feet, much smaller than the typical lot size for a single suburban house, yet it is renowned for being a wonderful urban place.
Pittsburgh’s Market Square is one of the city’s smallest public spaces, but is one of the most vibrant.
Savannah, GA’s famous downtown squares are all fairly small. Try to imagine downtown Savannah with one giant park instead of its 22 small squares that fit nicely into the street grid. Wouldn’t be the same place, would it?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for the redevelopment of New York’s Central Park, or Austin’s Zilker Park, or San Diego’s Balboa Park. Every major city needs a handful of large, recreational parks that serve as destinations in and of themselves. But it is often the small, intimate public spaces that create the best urban experiences.

Feature #2 of Great Public Spaces: They are surrounded by diversity

Washington Square Park: New York, NY (Photo Credit: City of New York)

Jane Jacobs made this point in her 1961 book The Life And Death Of Great American Cities. I’m paraphrasing here, but Jacobs said that it’s not the park itself that creates a vibrant urban place, it is the park’s surroundings. A great example is Washington Square Park in New York’s West Village neighborhood.

Washington Square Park has a fountain in the center of the park, a sculpture/monument at one end, a dog run, and a bunch of park benches and walkways. Oh yeah, and it has a bunch of trees, and it’s fairly well-maintained and landscaped. And I almost forgot the built-in outdoor chess tables where you can play chess against some of the best homeless chess players in the world.

So, aside from the fairly unique chess tables, Washington Square Park sounds like a decent, run-of-the-mill park, right? How many other parks are there in New York City that have a fountain, a sculpture, a dog run, and a bunch of benches, trees, and walkways? There are dozens of parks in New York with similar features. And how many parks in the U.S. sound just like this? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands?

Now, let me ask you this: Are there thousands of public spaces in the U.S. that are more vibrant than Washington Square Park? Definitely not. If you’ve ever visited Washington Square Park, you’ll agree it’s a great public space. So, if it’s not about what’s in the park itself, what makes Washington Square so great? Are thousands of people traveling from across NYC just to play chess? No, Washington Square Park is great because of its surroundings.

The park is surrounded on all sides by New York University and the Greenwich Village/West Village neighborhood. There are literally thousands of housing units and hundreds of commercial establishments within a 5-minute walk. I won’t go into any more detail because I’ve written more here about the urban vitality of the West Village neighborhood. I’ll just say that it’s the neighborhood that makes Washington Square Park a wonderful urban place, not the park itself.

Other examples of vibrant public spaces that are surrounded by diversity include: Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, San Francisco’s Union Square, and Jamison Square in Portland, OR.

Feature #3 of Great Public Spaces: They mix public and private together

Riverwalk: San Antonio, TX (Photo Credit: David Kozlowski)

A great public space is not really just a public space. It brings together public and pri

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