But here’s the question I’ve been wondering: How are today’s graduates going to spend the next few years and what will be their collective appetite (literally)? What does fast, cheap, and delicious comfort food look like in the post-COVID era? And maybe it’s worthwhile to take a moment to consider the past before rushing to make prophecies about the future…
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As painstaking as it may be, landlords and tenants must keep open lines of communication and view any landlord-tenant relationship as a true partnership. Ultimately, these partnerships are the ones that will survive this pandemic and thrive in the new normal that will result.
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It will be interesting as time goes on to see how these areas of interior design get applied to new residential developments in particular, but also thinking of how they can be applied towards the design/construction of restaurants, retail, and office spaces.
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Restaurants. No category other than live entertainment has been hit as hard by the COVID-19 fallout. And no category in the retail sector employs as many people nor is as important to the culture of our urban neighborhoods.
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The calmness of the city has allowed me to capture important visual assets, which as a designer, has also led to some new explorations for how we feature properties in our marketing decks.
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With improved effort on policy execution and consideration towards better UX practices, grocery shopping in the time of COVID-19 could be a vastly better experience.
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Now that many of us have moved beyond grocery hoarding, I’ve been venturing out for pickup from some of my favorite restaurants as a way to support these struggling businesses, but also to conduct field research.
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We have, and always will, fly the local-first piece proudly in our messaging. Because it is core to our approach, our world-view, and the way we understand value creation in the urban mixed-use context. Today, with COVID-19 related considerations dominating our conversations, decision making, and daily life, we are thinking a lot about how localism will play out in the months and years ahead.
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From the physical layouts, to staffing, menu offerings, and service lines, we can expect some exciting and challenging changes ahead, with the restaurants who are most nimble, creative, and resourceful rising to the top.
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In a retail environment that has left so many local businesses districts shrunk down to only restaurants and an occasional service business, JP has held on to a strong diversity of retailers.
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