A third place can act serve as a neutral ground which provides an ease of association. They provide a sorting area where one can meet people with similar interests. They bring together people for the first time who may later go on to develop other forms of association. They provide a staging area. It times of local crisis people can assemble and arrange ways of helping each other.
Third places help create public characters people who seem to know everybody in the neighborhood.
They keep an eye on things, they alert parents about their child s behavior before things reach a critical point, they welcome others to the neighborhood. They bring youths and adults together. They provide a place for the elderly to meet and interact with each other as well as those who are younger than they. They unite the neighborhood. They provide a place for exchanging information.