Quarantine Coffees, More Social Streets & WeWork Doesn't Pay Rent (Cafe Society Dinner Discussion #1)
Hey friends,
Before your biweekly update below, a quick public service announcement launching our first official newsletter with a new initiative we’re running - Quarantine Coffees.
Social distancing has left us all craving interaction. We have so many friends with amazing stories and life experiences, and we want to introduce you all to each other. Sign up, answer a couple questions, and whoever invited you will hook you up with someone we think you’ll get along with for a Quarantine (Virtual) Coffee.
What We’re Reading - Articles
Streets More Like Europe?
StreetsBlog suggests we take this opportunity to think about how we make low traffic streets for bikes and pedestrians only. This is something we were thinking about - even once social spaces, bars and restaurants open, they normally operate at 5-10% margins. If, as expected, they are required to have 50-75% of their normal capacity to enforce some level of social distancing, how are they going to survive? We started thinking, what if Mayors of cities used this opportunity to loosen up regulations on streets, allowing restaurants to spill out onto those streets. Win win win, better streets for everyone and more space for restaurants and bars to socially distance. This is kind of how Europe already operates due to more lenient public drinking laws, but it would allow venues to unlock value that is just sitting there…
