{ "version": "2026-09-13-building-concept", "scope": "Independent public concept. No business, investment, tenancy, building-design or operating approval is represented. Existing 9-case and 7-night-city evidence records remain applicable.", "sources_record": "world-cases-evidence.json", "claims": [ { "id": "BC01", "type": "fact", "claim": "PDA charter includes fostering small businesses; craft daystall participation includes makers selling their own products.", "source": "https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/about-pike-place-market/governance/", "locator": "PDA charter mission", "grade": "primary operator/charter", "confidence": "high for mission; profitability not established", "proposal": "Transparent small-unit and short-term tenant selection plus disclosed total occupancy costs on B1 and 2F.", "limitation": "Rent discounts and turnover rents are MDL proposals, not a claim about all Pike Place leases." }, { "id": "BC02", "type": "fact", "claim": "Granville Island 2040 describes market rental revenue supporting arts and culture.", "source": "https://granvilleisland2040.ca/strategies/strategy-2/", "locator": "Strategy 2 economic engine / arts and culture", "grade": "CMHC-commissioned primary plan", "confidence": "high for stated mechanism; current surplus not audited here", "proposal": "Budget culture at operator level, supported first by committed funding; allocate only available surplus after full operating costs, repair reserves and working capital.", "limitation": "Tenant sales/profit and landlord/operator income are separate. Evening activation in the source is a plan, not a measured outcome." }, { "id": "BC03", "type": "fact", "claim": "Time Out describes selection by its editorial team and coexistence with the traditional market.", "source": "https://www.timeout.com/time-out-market-lisboa/concept", "locator": "Who we are / selection / traditional market", "grade": "primary operator", "confidence": "high for configuration; not independent demand evidence", "proposal": "An accountable food curator selects local operators, seasonality and accessible price bands for the B1/1F core.", "limitation": "Shimonoseki demand and profitability are unmeasured." }, { "id": "BC04", "type": "fact", "claim": "King’s Cross combines work, residences, education, retail and public space.", "source": "https://www.kingscross.co.uk/about-the-development", "locator": "About the development / mix of uses", "grade": "primary developer", "confidence": "high for mix of uses", "proposal": "5F learning/work/community with repeat users and actual operating partners identified first.", "limitation": "Repeat visits and net jobs are hypotheses in Shimonoseki. Prior 2021 link is retained in the historic evidence snapshot; current page now links this source." }, { "id": "BC05", "type": "fact", "claim": "Smith Street master-tenant quality selection and SG Heritage Business Scheme support are different mechanisms.", "sources": [ "https://www.ura.gov.sg/news/media/pr23-47/", "https://www.mccy.gov.sg/about-us/news-and-resources/digital-support-and-tools-to-expand-businesses-presence-under-the-sg-heritage-business-scheme/" ], "locator": "Master tenancy tender / scheme support", "grade": "primary public agencies", "confidence": "high for mechanisms", "proposal": "Publish operator/tenant selection reasons and connect heritage storytelling to business and successor support.", "limitation": "No claim of existing local-preference lease entitlement or direct cash subsidy under the heritage scheme." }, { "id": "BC06", "type": "inference", "claim": "Markthal food experience, Bilbao integrated district planning, Battersea reuse/access and Medellin inclusive access inform spatial conditions across floors.", "source_record_case_ids": [ "markthal", "bilbao", "battersea", "medellin" ], "proposal": "1F food/Trip Studio connects the building to existing city and Kanmon transport, shops and public space.", "confidence": "design inference, effect unverified", "limitation": "These examples do not establish the suitability or value of the subject building or a specific floor allocation." }, { "id": "BC07", "type": "proposal", "claim": "Six conceptual places form one jointly curated building: B1 pantry, 1F local table/trip gateway, 2F makers, 3F Kanmon play, 4F theatre, 5F learning/work.", "basis": [ "BC01", "BC02", "BC03", "BC04", "BC05", "BC06" ], "conditions": [ "building rights and scope", "structure and floor loads", "floor area and existing uses", "fire escape and evening vertical circulation", "kitchen/ventilation/waste", "sound mitigation and staff travel", "willing operators and paid demand" ], "limitation": "3F game is MDL original, not a foreign case performance claim. Floors and sequence are provisional. Roof/6F/7F not committed." } ], "decision_contract": { "audience": "MDL special-site readers and prospective local participants", "decision": "Publish a clearer conditional in-building concept; no capital or operating commitment", "owner": "MDL for proposal; asset, funding and operator decision owners require agreement", "next_action": "Survey usable spaces, operators, demand and full costs before authorizing a paid trial", "approval_status": "Site update authorized; redevelopment and experiment not authorized or executed" }, "hypotheses": [ { "hypothesis": "Curated food plus one local experience creates incremental spend and paid repeat visits.", "counter_hypothesis": "Activity displaces existing district purchases; upper-floor costs exceed additional income.", "test": "Compare food-only and food-plus-experience sessions, pre-existing travel plans, nearby purchases, paid reuse and separate tenant/operator fully loaded accounts." }, { "hypothesis": "Daily work/learning supports weekday use.", "counter_hypothesis": "Existing nearby provision already meets demand or users will not pay.", "test": "Obtain repeat-use commitments and compare incremental service access before permanent fit-out." } ], "alternatives": { "A": "Permanent building-led destination, conditional on measured demand, owners and downside funding", "B": "Small anchor plus district venues and joint operations, proposed first test", "C": "Daily-use core with work/learning/service commitments", "no_additional_project": "Retain existing services and defer additional investment; ownership/maintenance obligations may remain" }, "execution": { "state": "designed / not executed", "sequence": "30 days investigation; by 90 days authorized paid pilot; by 365 days seasonal assessment; dates relative to agreed start", "owners": "Before a pilot agree asset owner, operator, budget/risk/data owner, transport and culture partners", "measure": [ "incremental purchases", "outside-building use", "paid repeat use", "resident income without double counting", "tenant and operator accounts", "worker return and neighbourhood burden" ], "continue": "Paid demand plus committed revenue/funding covers full costs within agreed loss ceiling", "pivot": "Adjust content, area, hours or district referrals when paid demand exists but format fails", "stop": "No sustainable funds or operating conditions after adjustment; stop before agreed loss ceiling", "funding": "Base cultural programme needs committed finance, not assumed future food profit; reinvestment is limited to eligible operator surplus after costs/reserves/working capital." }, "graph_lite_status": { "observation": "partial", "problem_definition": "partial", "decision_contract": "partial", "graph": "partial", "SIDE+P": "partial", "options": "partial", "refutation": "partial", "execution_design": "partial", "business_evidence_freeze": "blocked", "audience_presentation": "complete", "execution_learning": "not executed" }, "verification": { "date": "2026-09-13", "method": "Independent bounded urban/operating-strategy review and separate primary-source verifier", "revisions": [ "Distinguished tenant and facility accounts", "Required committed base culture budget", "Allowed 5F daily use before entertainment floors if supported", "Explicitly labelled 3F as MDL proposal", "Changed Granville heading to market rents", "Replaced King’s Cross public source with current development overview" ] } }