Grand Opening | Ridgway Space to Create

675 Clinton Street,Ridgway CO 81432

22 June, 2023

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Celebrate the Grand Opening of the second Space to Create project in the State of Colorado! Join Artspace along with the city of Ridgway and Colorado Creative Industries for a fun, festive evening featuring live performances and art exhibitions from the local community. Your friends and family are invited to learn how this transformative project showcases the potential and impact of the local creative sector, workforce housing, and rural creative workspace. About Ridgway Space to Create Ridgway Space to Create is the first project (following the demonstration project in Trinidad) selected for Space to Create Colorado; and is also the first affordable housing project in Ouray County. Located in Southwest Colorado at the foothills of the San Juan Mountains, more than one in 10 people identify as artists in this town of just over 1,000 people. We invite you to join us as we celebrate the start of a new era of affordable, creative space in Ridgway. Visit Space to Create Colorado | Space to Create Colorado Learn more about the project | Ridgway Space to Create Learn more about Artspace Projects | artspace.org The Ridgway Space to Create new construction, completed in 2022, provides 30 one- and two-bedroom units of low-income workforce housing, as well as 2,000 square feet of community space, in the Town of Ridgway’s downtown core and certified Creative District. This new construction project aligns with the town’s clear goals for affordable housing production, Main Street economic development, and added density and volume; while leveraging the Creative District and the Ramp Up Ridgway project with the Colorado Department of Transportation, which paved downtown Ridgway streets for the first time. A Grand Opening will take place in 2023 and community engagement is currently ongoing to plan for a public art component on the building. The Decker Community Room is dedicated to Ridgway resident Dr. Peter Randolph Decker (1934—2020), who owned the land that Ridgway Space to Create is being built on, was a true “Renaissance Man”: A rancher; history and public policy educator; former staff assistant to Senator Robert Kennedy; former Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture; and author of several books. Follow Artspace: Facebook | facebook.com/artspaceusa Instagram | instagram.com/artspaceusa Twitter | twitter.com/artspaceusa