Episode Details

Fayetteville, Arkansas, is growing fast, and housing is getting harder to build. Clark Eckels and Nathan McCloskey of Fayetteville Strong talk about Rethink the Lot, a tactical urbanism pop-up that turned downtown parking spaces into small-scale housing people could walk through. The housing and parking debate can easily get stuck in zoning language, council meetings, and abstract trade-offs, but this project gave people a physical way to understand what those rules mean on the ground. Clark and Nathan explain what residents worry about, why parking minimums matter, and what changed when people stood inside a home where a car would usually sit.

• Clark Eckels and Nathan McCloskey (LinkedIn)
• Fayetteville Strong (Site, Instagram, Youtube Video)
• Local Recommendations:‍
  
  • Word Coffee
  • Crisis Brewing
  • Fossil Cove Brewing
  • Hugos
  • Hammontrees
  • Fayetteville Public Library
  • Razorback Greenway
• Tiffany Owens Reed (Instagram)
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