Our Projects: MOMENT - Moveable Co.

MOMENT embodies the urgency, immediacy, and verve of today’s new retail and creative culture by featuring makers, creatives, artists, and emerging brands for varying short-to-mid-length durations.

THE STORY

MOMENT arose from a Knight Cities Challenge grant awarded in 2015 to San Jose Downtown Association (SJDA), who envisioned the amazing things possible in converting twelve parking spaces on the sidewalk level of the San Pedro Market Parking Garage into four dynamic micro-retail spaces along with a sidewalk patio to add public space to our rapidly growing urban core. MOMENT is part of SPSQUARED, a SJDA initiative designed to activate, elevate and celebrate San Pedro Street within San Pedro Square.

Located in downtown San José within the ever-popular San Pedro Square neighborhood, MOMENT is perfectly positioned to elevate these already-amazing businesses, brands and talent to newer and greater levels of visibility at a time when San José itself is rising to newer and greater levels of visibility.

THE NAME

Our team at San José Made really found the name MOMENT to perfectly suit the vision for the ethos and ambition of these four retail spaces, as "MOMENT" in one simple incisive utterance connotes and encapsulates so many different things they’ve achieved and continue to achieve at MOMENT.

MOMENT represents San Jose Made's unwavering belief in ephemeral retail activations, where speed, urgency and immediacy coalesce with creativity and commerce to produce a destination demanding to be experienced.

THE TENANTS

For the amazing creative tenants who'll reside here, MOMENT represents one of the biggest landmarks of growth in their business and brand's story. This is what they have been working on for so long, and now here's this ample and wildly visible space to express not only their work, not only their brand but the best and boldest version of themselves.

THE CITY

For the city and people for whom San José Made does all this, "MOMENT" conveys this vast and pervasive feeling that, as a city and as a people, we are facing significant questions, challenges, and most importantly opportunities—all moments if you will—that'll end up defining the city's narrative over the next several decades. This is San José's all-important moment where we must meaningfully, collectively and creatively answer the question: "What is San José?"