The industry has come a long way since artists were throwing together temporary booths with hay bales and burlap.

Code compliant construction requirements means that designers have to know what they are doing… and it is sometimes easier to teach the design constraints to a commercial builder than it is to teach commercial building codes to an artist and designer.

Even in a delicious building boom, cookie cutter framing jobs get boring.

It is hard to find a place to ply your builder’s trade that allows real expression and an artistic stretch of your abilities.

Creative builders are artists themselves, and can create sales spaces for artisans and craftspersons that sell within these Renaissance parks. Builders can meet their own need for expression, and oftentimes bypass the step of meeting with architects by applying for and pulling permits with their own drawings.