Wyoming Community Media is coordinating a multidisciplinary collaborative mixed use development project in the Hynds Building. Click on the image to watch a video about sustainable living by Wonderland Hill Development President Jim Leach.
WCM developing Hynds Building artist cohousing and new creative community project
Download the Hynds Building Project feasibility analysis.
Be careful what you ask! As a part of a Wyoming Arts Council Community Arts Partnership grant proposal that was approved last year, Wyoming Community Media (WCM) is investigating an ambitious creative economy mixed use, diverse housing project in Downtown Cheyenne. A feasibility analysis has been written evaluating the project consisting of 20 universally accessible artist homes, of which 10 are permanently affordable. The first and second floors are envisioned as civic – educational – retail and the upper three floors as housing.
The utility core is planned to be built on land owned by the city of Cheyenne and be the location for certain public improvements such as water – wastewater service, electrical, elevators and stairs to serve not only the Hynds Building but an incentive for development in the adjacent vacant lot.
The Harry P. Hynds Building New Creative Community (Hynds Building Project) has as its mission to develop a mixed-use artist cohousing community consisting of diverse artist-occupied affordable to market rate live – work homes to incubate the new creative economy integrated with offices, civic – classroom – gallery spaces and service retail to serve the greater neighborhood and at the same time protect the public health and safety in a neighborhood that is the location of a huge open pit resulting from a structure destroyed by fire and an historic building built in 1919 that has fallen into disrepair and largely vacant for the past 26 years.
Cohousing developer Jim Leach discusses the state of sustainable living and the importance of community building in neighborhoods. Click on the image of the Hynds Building to watch the 45-minute presentation.
The Hynds Building Project pursues its mission through a multidisciplinary public/private partnership. The collaborative approach will result in a diverse cohousing mixed-use development Housing is the bridge between creative community development and traditional economic development. There are hundreds of cohousing communities around the world, as financial efficiency and environmental sustainability become important lifestyle factors. Cohousing community members know who lives nearby because they may eat common meals together, decide how to allocate homeowners dues and accept a carpool ride.
The Hynds Building Project encourages art, culture and creativity powerfully expressed through place can create vibrant communities, thus increasing the desire and the economic opportunity for people to thrive in place.
