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Can Creative Placemaking Make a Building More Successful? Skylight’s Stephanie Blake Thinks So

October 12, 2021

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Her firm, Skylight Studios, is some combination of historian, consensus-builder, urban anthropologist and glitzy, celebrity-studded event management firm. It works with some of the country’s biggest landlords and developers, including Vornado Realty Trust, Brookfield, L&L Holding and Atlas Capital Group, taking their unused or underused real estate and offering it up to brands and content studios for events, installations and immersive experiences.

Her firm, Skylight Studios, is some combination of historian, consensus-builder, urban anthropologist and glitzy, celebrity-studded event management firm. It works with some of the country’s biggest landlords and developers, including Vornado Realty Trust, Brookfield, L&L Holding and Atlas Capital Group, taking their unused or underused real estate and offering it up to brands and content studios for events, installations and immersive experiences.

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“Real estate is nothing without people. Even the most beautiful, historic spaces occasionally need a boost, and Stephanie Blake is the magician making that happen. As CEO of Skylight, she’s responsible for activating spaces ranging from New York’s Moynihan Station and St. John’s Terminal to San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Detroit’s Michigan Central Station. Blake has built a reputation working with governments, brands, and real estate developers to build a sense of place and activity in incredible and often unconventional spaces.”

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“Skylight not only monetizes a developer’s dormant asset, it also allows people in, inviting them to have a unique experience, and maybe even to take a picture or two—preferably geotagged on Instagram. It’s the beginnings of a historic structure’s 21st-century identity… where the only constant is change.”

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“Real estate is nothing without people. Even the most beautiful, historic spaces occasionally need a boost, and Stephanie Blake is the magician making that happen. As CEO of Skylight, she’s responsible for activating spaces ranging from New York’s Moynihan Station and St. John’s Terminal to San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Detroit’s Michigan Central Station. Blake has built a reputation working with governments, brands, and real estate developers to build a sense of place and activity in incredible and often unconventional spaces.”

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“Skylight not only monetizes a developer’s dormant asset, it also allows people in, inviting them to have a unique experience, and maybe even to take a picture or two—preferably geotagged on Instagram. It’s the beginnings of a historic structure’s 21st-century identity… where the only constant is change.”

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“Real estate is nothing without people. Even the most beautiful, historic spaces occasionally need a boost, and Stephanie Blake is the magician making that happen. As CEO of Skylight, she’s responsible for activating spaces ranging from New York’s Moynihan Station and St. John’s Terminal to San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Detroit’s Michigan Central Station. Blake has built a reputation working with governments, brands, and real estate developers to build a sense of place and activity in incredible and often unconventional spaces.”

Read

“Skylight not only monetizes a developer’s dormant asset, it also allows people in, inviting them to have a unique experience, and maybe even to take a picture or two—preferably geotagged on Instagram. It’s the beginnings of a historic structure’s 21st-century identity… where the only constant is change.”

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