Many of the previously vacant commercial buildings along Baltimore Street have been "shopsteaded" (the commercial equivalent to homesteading).
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Shopstead
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The city offered businesses the option to “shopstead,” a program that rented storefronts for $1 per square foot per year, renewable for up to forty-seven years (Jordan 1986).
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The program is supported by merchants, who see abandoned storefronts in neighborhood shopping strips as hurting their business, and by neighborhood residents, who have been given a say in what types of businesses they want in the shopstead properties.
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While renovating shopsteads, residents and city officials discovered artists needed affordable housing they could adapt for large, open studios.
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