Showing posts with label groundbreakings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label groundbreakings. Show all posts

Saturday, October 01, 2016

Amid a symphony of chainsaws and forging of plaques, political luminaries jostle to take credit for the Greenway.

Cribbed from social media and slightly adjusted.

That's right: $32 million and two decades. One suspects the great pyramids were built more quickly, although admittedly they didn't require the rationale of an auto-friendly road where a simple shared use path would have sufficed.

But yes, please; build the bridge over Silver Creek AND GET ON WITH IT.

New Albany breaks ground on more Greenway; Next section goes from Eighth Street to 18th Street, by Jerod Clapp (News and Tribune)

NEW ALBANY — There’s still one more segment to go, but New Albany’s portion of the Ohio River Greenway Project is about to start another section from Eighth Street to 18th Street.

City officials, along with those from Clarksville and Jeffersonville, held a groundbreaking ceremony at the 18th Street entrance Friday morning. Mayor Jeff Gahan said as younger people in the city talk about the history downtown and the quality of life improvements in the city, he hopes Greenway will further add to what they like about the city.

Monday, November 02, 2015

Kevin Hammersmith Memorial Park groundbreaking ceremony.


The News and Tribune's Chris Morris gives good preview here. Today's ceremony was well attended, and there couldn't have been a better November day for it. The site is behind Northside Christian, on what must be one of the last perfectly flat undeveloped bits of acreage below the Knobs.

The park is an appropriate honor for Kevin, who was a longtime (combined) parks board member and a great supporter of the parks and recreation ideal.