Showing posts with label downtown from the top down again. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downtown from the top down again. Show all posts
Thursday, March 14, 2019

It's good for special interest campaign donors, but "Is a Top-Down Approach the Best Way to Revitalize Downtown?"

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From the top, down -- you know, the same way water and debris washes down the side of the Summit Springs development whenever it rains. ...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Summers announces plan to "Walk the Walk" by enhancing car-centrism via the Market Street medians. We advocate nuking them to outer space.

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As the photos show, reducing the sidewalk width of the north side of Market between Pearl and State means having to cut even more tree...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

From Colokial to DADA in two blocks or less, with a sideways glance at DNA's tacky mobster tactics.

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The upshot: Colokial closes so its owner can transition to a different business model, and DADA moves from Underground Station into th...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Louisville's Logan Street Market reminds us of downtown New Albany's missed market opportunity.

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The advent of the Logan Street Market in Louisville (below; also reported at Insider Louisville ) annoyingly recalls New Albany's dis...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Grid Control, Vol. 13: "Dear Deaf Gahan and minions: FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, STOP TRYING TO BE COOL AND DESIGNER-ISH. YOU'RE NOT, AND IT'S EMBARRASSING ALL OF US."

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The good news? There's plenty of creativity hereabouts, albeit a strain characterized by gallows humor. The bad news? Since Cool ...
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Grid Control, Vol. 12: Meet the artistic crosswalk design equivalent of dogs playing poker.

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Always identical logoed designs where mandated by engineers, not anything to be confused with grassroots creativity. Always the Mark...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Just monetize, baby: Mirror imagery at Main & W. 1st.

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In New Gahania, first we look at the purse. Mark of Duggins: "An anchor fixes a potentially moving object to a place. It gets ...
Monday, May 15, 2017

"I believe that effective art is more about process than project" is a statement we don't often hear around here.

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Dear Leader's public art alleys. Pay close attention to the street piano scenario described below, and never forget the lessons we ...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

Where is the best place to put a bike rack? (A clue: not where it blocks a sidewalk).

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The Green Mouse has learned that there is a push to install bicycle racks in downtown New Albany. On the surface, this is a positive devel...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

City Hall non-transparency yet again: Independent downtown businesses negatively impacted by Saturday farmers market street closing.

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I tell ya, crosswalks -- they get no respect. The following is reprinted as posted on Facebook by Antiques Attic . It is worth noting...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Jeff Gahan's quarter-million dollar farmers market fluff job commences this week.

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And yet, Bank remains a one-way street, just like our politics. Yes, every City Hall argument deployed in favoring the Coyle site devel...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

10 reasons why Jeff Gahan's quarter-million dollar farmers market fluff job is wrong for New Albany.

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It squanders irreplaceable infill residential potential on what might be a signature downtown corner – at a time when City Hall insists th...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Pre-synopsis of that "other" Top-Down Business Not-For-Profit meeting, this morning at The Exchange.

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(4:35 p.m. update ... it may not surprise you to learn that others on the list received e-vitations. It would appear that I've been disf...
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