Showing posts with label downtown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downtown. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 06, 2020

REWIND: Good points aplenty ... "The big urban mistake: Building for tourism vs. livability."

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Social media at Strong Towns reposted this link today. It appeared previously in this space in May 26, 2017. It has long been my viewpoint ...
Sunday, January 06, 2019

Your Sunday MUST READ: "My city is unlike any other. My city is not a thru street."

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If Deaf Gahan would have paid attention the first time ... thick, ain't he? Our campaign finance aggregator-in-chief will read this s...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Here's Jeff Speck, explaining how slower downtown speeds have only a minimal impact on typical commute times -- and there's Team Gahan, ignoring him.

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Jeff Speck was on Twitter . Here's what he had to say about commuting times in the context of lower speed limits.  Here's Jeff Sp...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Good points aplenty: "The big urban mistake: Building for tourism vs. livability."

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Team Gahan and Develop New Albany should be locked into a room together. That'd be enough in itself, but they shouldn't be allowe...
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, March 25, 2016

You have to wonder how things like this affect the bar business downtown.

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Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Jane Jacobs, 1958: "Downtown is for People."

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Photo credit It's an essay by Jane Jacobs written in 1958, and worth revisiting at regular intervals. First, for those just tuning...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Service amenities: "The Real Source of America's Urban Revival"?

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But they'd still have to drive to the water slide. The Real Source of America's Urban Revival , by Eric Jaffe ( City Lab ) ...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

"Asheville's de facto motto was: 'That will never work here - don't even try.'"

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Where have I heard that one before? Asheville Just 'Happened' to Develop a Nice Downtown—Or Did It? , by James Fallows ( The ...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Out with the down-low: "We don’t ban the car. We just prioritize it."

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There is no conceivable gain from timidity. If the point is for the city to do something to assist core revitalization, rather than to ma...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Learning is good: "Differences Between Distributive Bargaining & Integrative Bargaining."

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I've always liked the idea of beginning the negotiation with my most extreme position, and being prepared to give as we move toward the ...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

4. With downtown normality almost restored, there's hope: Here's a three-point economic development plan for downtown. The ball's in your court, City Hall.

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By the time Harvest Homecoming descends on downtown New Albany in 2015, there'll be even more businesses located there, and if curren...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

The downtown Harvest Homecoming shutdown begins tonight. Are we having fun yet?

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The dialogue continued yesterday, with a few informative twists. Longtime downtowner PL wrote: You're right on the money. Most of...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Reisz Furniture Building: Cautious optimism?

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A part of this story seems to be missing. Aren't we supposed to be providing potential developers with a tailor-made $12-15 million...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Let's have a farmers market expansion moratorium, at least until we get a good look at the Speck Report.

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I haven't the time to fully document this morning's meeting at The Exchange, which was intended as the much belated follow-up to a s...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

ON THE AVENUES: I’ll take “Farmers Market” for $108K, Alex ... or maybe I won't.

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ON THE AVENUES: I’ll take “Farmers Market” for $108K, Alex ... or maybe I won't. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Resolved:...
Saturday, March 08, 2014

ON THE AVENUES: BSB’s second five-year plan begins now.

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ON THE AVENUES: BSB’s second five-year plan begins now. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. I’m the first to admit that Thursday’s...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Strategies and amenities suitable for Redevelopment to ignore.

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At urbanscale.com, two collections of strategies and amenities help make the point that even for a city of New Albany's relatively small...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Today's reading for CM Blair: "Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities."

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You can lead a banker to information, but you can't always make him read. Let's hope this is an exception. Scott: When you're f...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Downtown, walkability, costs, benefits and not even one mention of aquatics.

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Costs and benefits? Follow the money. How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time , by Isaac Pino, CPA ( The Motley Fool )  ... J...