MICRO SHIT-SHACK SHOT WITH WIDE ANGLE LENS TO APPEAR SPACIOUS
Bloomberg Businessby Patrick Clarke
Des Moines doesn’t have a
reputation for being particularly hip … or space-constrained. In
this city of a bit more than 200,000 people, you can buy a three-bedroom
house for less than $150,000 and find yourself a short drive from acres
of rolling farmland. The local culture blog is called Des Moines Is Not
Boring—a pretty good indication that it very well might be.
That makes the city a surprising place to find a growing market for micro-apartments—an imprecise term describing units that are smaller than traditional studios. The emergence of micro-apartments, a phenomenon more often associated with big, expensive cities, such as New York or San Francisco, signals an effort to attract young renters who are inclined to make the city their living room, as the pitch goes, and sleep on beds that fold into walls.
That makes the city a surprising place to find a growing market for micro-apartments—an imprecise term describing units that are smaller than traditional studios. The emergence of micro-apartments, a phenomenon more often associated with big, expensive cities, such as New York or San Francisco, signals an effort to attract young renters who are inclined to make the city their living room, as the pitch goes, and sleep on beds that fold into walls.
