Downtown Project moving The Window to new location

The Downtown Project plans to move The Window — a multi-purpose center that showcased artwork and provided meeting space — from a high-profile location at the Ogden at Las Vegas Boulevard and Ogden Avenue to a few blocks away on East Fremont Street.

The door to Window space has been locked since Downtown Project laid off 30 people to streamline operations last month.

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, who created Downtown Project as a $350 million initiative to revitalize the East Fremont corridor, said the ground-floor space used by The Window is being prepared “for a new activation” that is scheduled for March.

“The Window is going to move to Learning Village where it will continue to be a location for coworking and events. We will also be offering it, as we did in the previous location, for free for use by 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations. The move should be completed in the coming weeks,” Downtown Project spokeswoman Kim Schaefer said Monday.

“Tours are currently being revamped, and we look forward to offering new models for tours in early 2015. The Window will be reactivated in late first quarter of 2015 as a new offering,” Schaefer said.

Downtown Project’s Learning Village is a series of trailers ranging from 1,440 square feet to 4,320 square feet. It hosts events such as speaker sessions and Downtown Project’s monthly “Downtown Lowdown,” which is held on the first Tuesday of every month to offer updates by team members. The Learning Village is next to Container Park on East Fremont Street.

Downtown Project opened The Window in May amid much excitement, heralding the space as a hub for arts, co-learning and meetings. Downtown Project also used The Window as the starting point for its tours, which included a visit to Hsieh’s spacious apartment in the Ogden.

The Window’s previous location had high visibility because it was on Las Vegas Boulevard at the Ogden Avenue corner within a five-minute walk to Zappos.com headquarters, Gold Spike or Container Park.

The Window at the Ogden had included an artist-in-residence. The space’s first artist was Donovan Fitzgerald, who created chalk illustrations portraying the “new American city” on three concrete pillars inside The Window.

Workers in downtown also used to stop by The Window at the Ogden to use its Wi-Fi and relax on the comfortable cushioned seating areas.

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