How Placemaking Triggers Revitalization: Tansy Recycling

How Placemaking Triggers Revitalization: Tansy Recycling is a plastics recycling workshop that transforms waste into art and functional items. Having outgrown their Kenmore home headquarters, they reached out to Better Kenmore CDC in 2023 about available spaces on Kenmore Boulevard.

55 lbs of post-consumer plastic waste, including bottle caps, yogurt cups, and food-to-go containers.

Since then, they have been a vendor during First Fridays, and created benches for use in June’s BLVD Block Party Pop Up Art Gallery thanks to ArtsNow Placemaking grant funding. This continued engagement, along with relationships with the property owners that allowed for encouraging negotiations, has resulted in them moving forward with a lease on The BLVD.

They are naming the building The Rookery with Tansy Recycling and six studio artists as the members of the artist collective.

Thank you to the artists for making this possible:
Ramen Shaman: @ramenshamanart
Hannah Jeanne: @m0untaindews
Kalia Horner: @kaliaartss
Elise Helms: @elise.helms
Diana Rice: @dianarice.art
Alex Creswell