What could happen here? Imaging Royston...

The Comox Valley has many beautiful places. Royston is one of them. And the waterfront drive along Marine Drive is one of my fave places to go to simply unlax. I do that a lot there with my dear friend and collaborator Davey. The other evening we were strolling along and instead of just passing the old fuel depot brownfield site (now a vacant gravel lot surround by chainlink fence in a rapidly gentrifying seaside suburb) we stopped. We gazed at it, and imagined what could be there. We also wondered, "What would Tom do with this opportunity?"

Tom Dishlevoy is one of the wonderful minds and spirits who've made the Comox Valley home in recent years. There are many of these wonderful minds and spirits in our community, all with their particular "specialness." What Tom's been doing since he discovered the ability to "create and share" (there I go again, quoting Clay Shirky on how wonderful our new media tools are...) with things like Google Sketch-Up and Facebook and hosted websites, etc is talk about the cool things that we can do locally to get our beautiful community more sustainable. And more beautiful. And more liveable. And more affordable. All good things. Thanks Tom.

In any case, here's the site. Tom recently did a great job re-imagining the dead zone that is the Driftwood Mall. I'm hoping he finds some time to think about what this particular bit of industrial legacy could be.


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hanspetermeyer
28 June 2010

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