Last year, three Long Beach restaurants paid Long Beach $18,000 to $25,000 to convert a parking space into a parklet, so how's that going? It's a smashing success: owners say they've seen a 25 to 30 percent increase in business and designer Studio One Eleven has "been getting lots of interest from businesses and other cities thinking about installing parklets." [LBPT, image via]
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