Tag: miLES

Collaborative Pioneer: Inside Interview with Eric Ho of miLES

Eric Ho is the founder of miLES, opening underused storefronts to new possibilities, with classes, events, co-working, and short-term space rentals. 1. We see that your background is in architecture. What draws you to collaborative consumption? It’s very much directly related to architecture. To me, there is so much creative potential for architects if they decide…  Read more

FastCo Exist: miLES is the ‘Airbnb for Storefronts’

“Despite its rapid gentrification over the past decade, New York City’s Lower East Side is still surprisingly full of vacant storefronts, as many as 200. According to Eric Ho, an architect and founder of neighborhood revitalization group miLES (Made in the Lower East Side), that’s because many landlords are content to sit on empty properties…  Read more