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Two typical 'New England' towns The city of Armidale and the small town of Uralla just 23km to its south, are typical New England towns. Situated in the high country on the Northern Tablelands, roughly halfway between Sydney and Brisbane on the New England Highway, both are characterised by their cool, temperate climate and enjoy four 'real' seasons: a short blast of winter with fog, frosts and occasional snowfalls, and hot summers blessed with evening thunderstorms and cool nights.

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Tools developed by other empty space initiatives and links to useful information. Suggest useful links for this page.

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Art in Storefronts (US)

Art in Storefronts places art installations in vacant and under-used storefront windows in San Francisco.

Landlords are an integral part of any Empty Spaces initiative and there are many positive outcomes from participating.

Look at the case studies on this website (Link to internal page - Case studies) to see how other landlords have successfully filled their empty spaces.

Having someone occupying your empty premises can:

Arts Law Centre of Australia has prepared some free legal factsheets and templates for use by Empty Space initiatives based on NSW law.

Sample templates of a head licence agreement and participation agreement are available, as well as information about setting up an administering body, insurances and legal responsibilities for employing staff.

The following information is adapted from Renew Newcastle: Creating Creative Enterprise Hubs: A Guide by Marcus Westbury. Click HERE to download the document as a PDF.

What is the Renew Newcastle project?

Empty Spaces is a project of UTS Shopfront Community Program funded by the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the University of Technology, Sydney.

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Funded by the NSW government through Arts NSW and the University of Technology, Sydney, to promote short-term reuses of empty shops and spaces for creative and community development, this site publishes tools for empty space coordinators to start a 'pop-up' initiative, success stories, information for

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