1999年,台中20號倉庫還在當時台灣省文化處的管轄中,透過公開招標的方式,橘園在眾多團隊中取得了第一名,這是橘園成立之後取得的第一個由政府主導的工作,在當時這是一個很受重視的案例,也是政府「閒置空間再利用」政策的開始。而台中20號倉庫的成功經驗,橘園有了進駐台北華山和花蓮創意文化園區的機會,也讓橘園團隊成為唯一經營過台灣三個大型閒置空間的專業團隊。

Operation of Alternative Space

In 1999, the Stock 20 was still supervised by the Department of Culture, Taiwan Provincial Government;by means of publicly inviting tenders, L’Orangerie won the first place among a great number of competitors. This was the first government project L’Orangerie had acquired upon its establishment. At the time, the project itself was a beginning of carrying out the policy in the adaptive reuse of abandoned space; hence, it was highly valued not only by the government but also by the public. Since then, the projects of large-scale abandoned space have been springing up. Through calling for public bidding, the government would select the experienced non-government circles to enter and manage the spaces, meanwhile more opportunities were given to the private organizations like L’Orangerie to learn. Because of success generated in the Stock 20, L’Orangerie had consequently gotten chances to enter and manage the Huashan 1914.Creative Park and Hualien Creative & Cultural Park, this also enabled L’Orangerie become the only professional team that once conducted three large-scale abandoned spaces in Taiwan.