Showing posts with label Urban Enterprise Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Enterprise Association. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Find the anchor in this mural. C'mon, you know it's there.

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Look carefully. The propaganda arm of INDOT's three-and-a-half-year-long bridge "renewal" project finds the city's ei...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

DNA, UEA and City Hall create New Albany Service Industry Relief Program.

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Read about it at DNA's Fb page. "It’s our responsibility to help others during this time," stated Mayor Jeff Gahan. Re...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Miss Emery's ice cream parlor, economic development and the politics of awarding credit.

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In an email, regular reader B refers to a post here at NAC on Saturday evening. Greenville, Georgetown and Duncan capitulate as giddy ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Letter to the editor: "I read your column on the Taco Walk, and the young lady's accompanying essay in full. I have sympathy for her."

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Following is a letter to the editor of NA Confidential authored by Mike Ladd, onetime director of the Urban Enterprise Association. La...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

"Giddy Giddy City": Finally, courtesy of the veteran pop band Sparks, #HisNA has the ideal civic marketing slogan.

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It's like a bolt of lightning from the firmament. For those who don't recall New Albany's epochal experience with Come To Ci...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Jeff Gahan has fired Bob Lane, and if you're wondering how Gahan treats his vanquished enemies ... remember Mike Ladd?

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Earlier this evening, Bob Lane was fired as director of the New Albany Housing Authority. It is likely other long-term NAHA employees als...
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Saturday, April 01, 2017

About this new Downtown Facade Improvement program ... our interest in the topic goes all the way back to 2004.

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Scroll down for the reprint of an article I penned in 2004, shortly after this blog's inception. Things have changed ... and they...
Friday, August 19, 2016

BID/EID: " Maybe the merchants of New Albany should consider helping themselves through this device."

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Way back in 2010 , before the Disneyesque edifice of New Gahania began to emerge, fully TIFFed, from the smoldering ruins of England III,...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: DNA, National Main Street, the Four Points, and how it might yet be possible to get this thing right for once.

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ON THE AVENUES: DNA, National Main Street, the Four Points, and how it might yet be possible to get this thing right for once. A weekly ...

From 2011 and 2015: Regaining consciousness in a city “coming” to? Or, the infamous Come to City marketing fiasco of 2011.

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Infamously. (The following has appeared previously, with an introduction from March 19, 2015, with the main section dating to September 2...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Letter to NAC: "You need to support your existing businesses with facts, not wants."

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This excerpt from the minutes of last month's merchant meeting caught the attention of regular reader Mike Ladd. The next merchan...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

RFRA resolution: Gonder rushes in where Gahan fears to tread.

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Borrowed from someone. Who'll show up for this vote?  NAC previewed the resolution on Friday. John Gonder's RFRA repeal res...