The Doxa » Pavement to Parks http://rebargroup.org/doxa Rebar via Blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:45:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Permits for parklets: available soon http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2010/08/permits-for-parklets-available-soon/ http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2010/08/permits-for-parklets-available-soon/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:15:11 +0000 Rebar http://rebargroup.org/doxa/?p=470 As the culmination of its Pavement to Parks parking space pilot program, the City of San Francisco will soon (late summer/early fall) make a permit available for businesses wanting to convert the on-street parking spaces in front of their storefronts to pedestrian plazas, mini-parks, or “parklets”. Rebar has prototyped a plug-and-play, modular system that will be available for businesses to specify as their design of choice when the City releases the application. To connect with Rebar about purchasing Walklets for your storefront when the City permit becomes available, contact us by email.

]]> http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2010/08/permits-for-parklets-available-soon/feed/ 0 Walklet is in! Rebar’s newest Pavement to Parks project hits the ground on 22nd Street in San Francisco http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2010/06/walklet-is-in-rebars-newest-pavement-to-parks-project-hits-the-ground-on-22nd-street-in-san-francisco/ http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2010/06/walklet-is-in-rebars-newest-pavement-to-parks-project-hits-the-ground-on-22nd-street-in-san-francisco/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:21:59 +0000 Blaine Merker http://rebargroup.org/doxa/?p=406 We’re covering this a little late on our own blog, but in case you haven’t caught on a posting elsewhere, Rebar’s prototype for modular, extensible, iterative public space in the parking lane is now in use in the Mission District. This is the latest installation for San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks program. See it for yourself at 22nd Street and Bartlett Street, in front of Cafe Revolution, Escape From New York Pizza, and Lolo.

Perhaps these guys say it best… Streetsblog SF, San Francisco Chronicle, the Design Blog, Yelp, Trendhunter Magazine, PSFK. And we also say it on the SFMOMA’s blog.

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We are developing “Walklet”–a plug-and-play system that makes it easy to instantly create a pedestrian public space in a parking lane (which San Francisco is developing a new permit for as we write). Retail inquiries welcome as we are going into production now. Email us through the product’s new website.

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