Civic-driven synergy and business incubator

<aside> 🏡 "Art transcends Nature, while Necessity is the Spark for Invention."

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In a nutshell, civic-driven synergy... the city shoulders most of the investment and maintenance of project structures, some the size only big entreprenarial business could muster, while citizens and sponsored organisations use them to the best of their abilities for the betterment of both, generations after generations : chores can be done, creds can be gained, lessons can be learned.

Workshop incubator

As you may know, our commercial district, the Workshop Central, can be considered an open-sky mall of nine parcels in a square formation, circled by the crescent boulevard to facilities moving of goods and customers. The district doubles as a business incubator where the best (more on that later), rather than the richest, are rewarded with the best spots in town.

To these ends, the three central parcels align to form the core of our pedestrian plaza, where the markets, rental stalls and food court are. Meanwhile the remaining parcels on the sides are each dedicated to a particular craft theme (outfiter, auberge, onsen, lab, atelier, forge) hosting up to 18 sponsored guilds in as many crafting abilities (workshop, lodging for family and apprentices, stock and front-store reserved for each), on top of other activities available in-situ all over the city.

So each of those nine buildings have their frontstores blend within the plaza and thus occupy roughly 1.25 parcels each; except for the unique auberge and onsen (bathhouse), the last four are relatively similar in design :

• three dedicated front-stores, each more than 90m² with at least 12m wide facing directly overlooking the pedestrian markets of the plaza (think open-sky mall),
• numerous versatile side premises on both lateral streets (some private for rent, some open with community stations, others as stores, those closest to the back as small warehouses),
• a central garden atrium for enhancing artworks and performances to be held, regular public demonstrations to be learned from, a good place to wait and plan next orders and deliveries,
• comfortably-sized lodging and offices on the upper floor (note that contrary to medieval-equivalent, our workshops should have a higher ceiling at street-level than typical buildings),
• the shared loading bays at the back-end area to manage goods and materials on their way to and from your workshop,
• and convenient parking slots for supply carts and mounted visitors alike, so not to cluster the streets.

In addition to the above, many OPC scripts will be standardized and optimized for repetive tasks around the block, please contact the local watchtower office for more info.

Healthy rivalry : sponsored artisans and guilds

<aside> 💡 Greetings from your landlord : the town's council.

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Quite the priviledge to earn the best and most synergic spot (in terms of clientele, exposition, logistics and cross-skill opportunities) when it comes to a specific craft, as such a sponsored guild is rewarded this lease by city contract after a public contest of skills (part demonstration show during the city fair, part creds, part vote) and has a few extra requirements like weekly artisan-level demonstrations, work hours for the city benefit and providing apprenticeship for one academy's graduate at least.

As mentioned in the above description of the workshop buildings, the side premises are roomy, despite being less exposed can be just as busy as the main "front" and they still retain the advantages of the municipal site, enhanced security and logistics network. Indeed a good opportunity for unaffiliated artisans and challenger guilds to show their worth and attract plenty customers.

The exact details still need to be hammered down but the leasing contract should last enough (around a decade in elyrian game time) before getting challenged in the aforementionned contest, though to be "fair", it will start shorter for newcomers and last longers for old-timers, based on their local in-game reputation. And maybe if some ambitious experts gather enough creds and votes, such challenge can be acknowledged sooner, always a town-issued decision in the end.