The Shop at CAC in NOLA
New Orleans’ Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) has served as an important cultural connection in that beloved city’s downtown corridor for decades. While the building’s first two floors have enjoyed the bustling attention of visitors to the CAC, its top two floors had historically been underutilized – until The Shopmoved in. Targeting technology, arts and cultural-based nonprofits and businesses, The Shop is an all-inclusive coworking development located on the third and fourth floors of the CAC. The Site “Located in a historic 1920 former warehouse, the building was used as the headquarters for K&B, a local drugstore and soda fountain until the CAC acquired the building in the mid-1970s,” reads the project description.” The Shop, designed by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, marks the first large-scale renovation of that space in the last forty years. “They couldn’t have chosen a better site,” said Hussein Alayyan, senior designer at Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. “It’s at the nexus of cultural …
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