Join the Downtown Business Community: Apply Now to the Pop-up Project | Activated Spaces

Dayton, Ohio, of all places, is doing this. Click title for link. From the article:

Activated Spaces, an initiative to fill downtown storefronts, is accepting applications for temporary retail and service businesses to open downtown this fall as part of the fifth phase of its Pop-up Project. The project matches business owners and entrepreneurs with downtown property owners who have first-floor storefront space available for occupancy.

I'm sending this to the CRA. They might be able to pull something off here like this. There would be an application process, a below market lease of three to six months and would require the cooperation of the property owner and city of course. It could work here - perhaps plan the start-up for the period from November to May?