Project hopes to facilitate creativity

A development focused on artisan residents is set to have move-in starting Jan. 1.

Giv Group and local nonprofit Craft Lake City are partnering to promote the development, called Project Open. The new development will have affordable housing opportunities and a residential initiative “to diversify and extend artistic affluence to the west neighborhoods of Salt Lake City through artisan residents and artist studios,” Craft Lake City said.

The project, at 355 N. 500 W., Salt Lake City, in the Guadalupe neighborhood, will feature a range of single-bedroom, pet-friendly apartments to rent, plus 14 leasable artist studios (leases offered only to Project Open apartment residents).

{mprestriction ids="1,3"} “We’re interested in places that make it easy for people to live healthier, more creative, and ultimately more fulfilled lives,” said Chris Parker, executive director of Giv Group, “Project Open looks to crowdsource ideas on how to [accomplish the ideas] better and then progressively build and share the results.”

Craft Lake City described the project as “an iterative case study that looks to research and share examples of how to foster creative, healthy and lasting communities along the Wasatch Front.”

Details about Project Open are available at (801) 916-5148 weekdays 10 a.m.-3 p.m. or by email at projectopen@emg-apts.com.

Craft Lake City was founded in 2009 by Angela H. Brown, editor and publisher of SLUG (Salt Lake UnderGround) Magazine. A 501(c)(3) charitable organization, it has a mission to educate, promote and inspire local artisans while elevating the creative culture of the Utah arts community through science, technology and art.{/mprestriction}