Pocket Parks can be used for taking lunch breaks or small gatherings, most importantly, a place of quiet refuge and escape for the busy city life surrounding them. Successful pocket parks achieve a balance between this quiet escape and an active meeting space. In this case, our design supports a ground floor retail use of a Crossfit gym with residential uses above. It also invites the wider neighborhood to utilize our site to cut through the block for a shorter way to walk to the South Bay developments from the Boston Street neighborhood.