Toolkit

This section contains information that will assist you to set up an empty space project in your community.

Quick links

• Benefits for artists, landlords and communities

• Types of uses for empty space projects

• The role of 'local broker'
  

• Structuring your initiative

• Understanding the legal issues

• Liability and insurance

• Identifying empty buildings

• Approaching property owners

• Working with real estate agents
  

• Licence agreements vs. leases

• Mapping local creative activity
  

• Finding and selecting 'tenants'

• Matching projects to spaces

• Uses permissible under land use zones

• Planning approvals required
  

• Setting up a pop-up gallery

• Thinking beyond the arts: youth development

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