City Boy: A rural Georgia kid turned urban designer, Jacob Lindsey goes to town improving the way Charleston functions. “I think, eat, sleep, dream about cities and how to make them better,” he says.
Lindsey transformed the former Luden’s marine store into the Digital Corridor’s Flagship co-working space, an innovative hub where tech companies set sail.
A gathering space front-and-center at Flagship 2 (FS2)
Mod & Modular: The lobby of FS2 illustrates the sleek and fresh but practical (i.e. low budget) aesthetic that Lindsey masters. FS2 is an expansion of the original Flagship incubator offices on the corner of East Bay and Calhoun, which Lindsey designed in 2009.
Where many see blight, Lindsey sees potential for urban parks and green space, as he designed here for the Charleston Lowline, a proposed linear park along abandoned railways under I-26 that’s being championed by Mike Messner and the Speedwell Foundation.
Linear Thinking: Where many see blight, Lindsey sees potential for urban parks and green space, as he designed here for the Charleston Lowline, a proposed linear park along abandoned railways under I-26 that’s being championed by Mike Messner and the Speedwell Foundation.
Mixsoning It Up: In this design for North Charleston’s Mixson neighborhood, Lindsey unites multi-family and single-family dwellings with an Old World-inspired stone and formed concrete courtyard that was planned around an existing grand oak.
Peer to Pier: With his new gig at the Civic Design Center, Lindsey will be going back to work with his peer, Tim Keane, and coming full circle in his career, which began with an internship in the city planning division. These early renderings for the Union Pier revitalization demonstrate Lindsey’s ability to think big.
In Stride: Lindsey and his wife, Martina, walk or bike around town—to work, to shop, to go out, or to explore.
The often congested downtown intersection of King and Calhoun streets
