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Overview
Artist Warehouses are converted usually warehouses or other commercial building s of previous last century manufacturing, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses. These spaces often comprise of between ten to one hundred studio spaces in close proximity dedicated or selectively let spaces primarily for artist or creative use. These units are rented primarily to artists and creative professionals with commercial terms making the individual studio spaces accessible due to the often low costs involved in acquiring large empty spaces.

The practice of converting industrial spaces for creative use has also been adopted on an institutional scale with building such as The Warehouse (Syracuse) building in New York which was repurposed by the local university from a storage facility to an art gallery and classroom facility.

Locations in which numerous Artist Warehouses are located often form cultural micro communities that share the shame intrinsic. These communities over time through a number of social and economic processes become the catalyst for gentrification to take place once a location reaches an established level of media attention.

Zoning Issues
In some US States artists studio are prohibited by law from being established in residential areas. For this reasons artists are required to seek out commercial space specifically, however as with many creative ventures commercial work is not always carried out. The issue of creative work spaces is also a policy issue as in many cases an artists use of a space has an abstract nature and may require long periods of rest or loud noise depending on the type of artwork being produced.

Cultural uniqueness
Artist warehouses often comprise of a units letted or hired by a wide variety of nationalities and cultural backgrounds. These small clusters of artists often form shared value systems very similar to artist collectives though with no codified set of standards, everyone is usually free to practice a wide range of usually socially unacceptable creative projects with some location such as Hackney Wick in London establishing its own yearly festival