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When Impact is the Asset: Transforming Forgotten Spaces with Lindsey Scannapieco
In 2014, the Philadelphia school district auctioned off a shuttered vocational school in South Philly — 340,000 square feet, built like a bomb shelter. Seven developers looked at it. Some bid a dollar. Lindsey Scannapieco bid $1.75 million. That building is now Bok: home to more than 200 businesses, the majority owned by women and people of color, and one of the most celebrated adaptive reuse projects in the country.
Lindsey Scannapieco is the founder of Scout, an urban design and development practice with a radically different approach to city development — she listens to buildings and lets…
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