Our economy is built upon globalized consumerism. Our lifestyles perpetually expect the new, the mint condition, the packaged, the disposable. The success of massive shopping centers reinforce these values, while the creative process (input) and waste (output) take a ÒbackstageÓ role. Trash currently has no place in our lives. It is out-of-sight, out-of-mind. The results are centralized landfills, which are temporary solutions at best. What if production and waste collection can occur at a local scale that begins to inform consumption? When these disparate processes function as a mutual system within a community, they become enduring spaces that anchor culture, and less about commodity. Crestwood Court is currently an empty mall in the city of Crestwood, MO, a historic suburb of St. Louis County. As shopping centers have defined our consumer culture, there must be a new identity to the sustainability era that is upon us.