GD III FINAL
LINCOLN PARK EATS
TEAMMATE: SEAN HIGGINS + JODY RADER
Design Duluth Lincoln Park Eats focuses on a major problem in much of the west side of Duluth: lack of access to healthy food. It poses solutions at three different scales in three locations, each with a corresponding alternate function aimed at providing a more robust program for the sites. Working closely with the community and with the nonprofit Equilibrium 3, we got a view of some other areas of Lincoln Park that are lacking.
Lincoln Park is becoming a neighborhood of startups. OMC Smokehouse, Bent Paddle, Frost River, and others have been making a name of the neighborhood. In that spirit, the first site, The Grocery Store, has a rentable community space and commercial kitchen available for people that need space to learn how to cook, to produce their food, to test their product, or run a popup kitchen.
Lincoln Park has a surplus of housing stock falling into disrepair. The second site, The Corner Store and Bar, provides neighborhood sized food access, as well as access to tools and equipment rental and training for home repair.
Winters in Duluth are long. That is why the third site in the project is a greenhouse, root cellar, and orchard
These three typologies respond to Lincoln Park’s food access problem in a way that is sensitive to the community. This will drive further development as well as encourage healthier living, eating, and cooking habits in Lincoln Park.