From the fall of 2008 to the summer of 2009, Press Street's Room 220,  at the temporarily repurposed Colton School, provided free, dedicated workspace for writers who were also interested in community outreach and educational and collaborative endeavors.

Room 220 was also home to Press Street's most recent book project, How to Rebuild a City: Field Guide From a Work in Progress, designed as an instruction manual which outlines the many and varied elements of reconstruction efforts in New Orleans. Proceeds from the book will benefit Rebuilding Together New Orleans. The co-directors of Room 220, Anne Gisleson and Pia Z. Ehrhardt, are both local writers and educators.  Editor and bookseller Tristan Thompson is the project manager for How to Rebuild a City, artist Catherine Burke is designing it.

Room 220 partnered with and hosted other organizations like NOLAFugees, City One-Minutes (a group of documentarians from Holland), Wordplay, and Bard's Early College program.  Writer Jane Stubbs taught an after school writing course to Carver  High School students and Daneeta Saft-Jackson ran a workshop exploring issues of violence for the City Year Young Heroes program.  On Saturdays writers staffed the room to help the occasional drop-in who needed guidance with their writing.  In June, we had a send-off reading sponsored in part by Poets and Writers magazine featuring author Pia Ehrhardt and 220 writers Constance Adler, Margot Douihay, Moose Jackson, Chris Lane and Seth Seigel.

Press Street will continue to provide work and meeting space for members of the New Orleans literary community in the newly reconfigured back room of its gallery Antenna, located at 3161 Burgundy.