In the same vein as Project Row Houses, this is a community development project that was created to uplift the African American community and to help them view their neighborhood as a place worth living and recreating. Gates brought a library and a kitchen among other things to blend urban planning and activism as an art movement. He also gave those he employed and served the autonomy to be artists themselves without them knowing it, or that being their everyday job. It redefines the notion that an artist is someone that has the potential to be in a museum and emphasizes that everyday people can create art. Gates grounded his project on the idea that we are all artists, working for a better society and in this case, the society that is being cultivated in the art. The art that is housed in some of the buildings is not bound by its connection to a museum or art dealer, but rather its importance in the atmosphere of a once under-resourced community. It brings together different art and community organizations to serve and reframe the idea of South-Side Chicago being dangerous and unsuitable for a fulfilling life into a neighborhood that deserves to be lived in. The space is multi-functional and created through repurposed materials to give the sense that it is made for and by Chicagoans. This goes beyond the movement of Black Lives Matter to say that the place in which blacks work and live are valuable and should be preserved.