Showing posts with label revitalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revitalization. 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 ...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Prom planning's nice and all, but New Albany still needs an autonomous independent business alliance.

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“Good morning, Mr. Baylor. How are you doing?” “Well, I’m doing fine, and as soon as I haul this kitty litter home it will be time for ...
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...
Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Something for CM Aebersold to learn about revitalization -- from a conservative, not us.

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Purely accidental first-year councilman David Aebersold famously expounded at depressing length about the weight of his ignorance of the ...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Georgetown, look not to NA's Bicentennial Park as a harbinger of revitalization. Beak-wetting? That's another matter entirely.

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A fitting and genuine national landmark in Georgetown. When I was a kid, Georgetown was a place that had an identity of its own. Perhap...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Courier-Journal sez: "New Albany's rebirth attracts young residents." Whaddya think?

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Somehow Bailey Loosemore is able to pen and publish an article about New Albany without longtime rural resident Irv Stumler intervening t...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: There has never been a better time for an Independent Business Alliance in New Albany.

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ON THE AVENUES: There has never been a better time for an Independent Business Alliance in New Albany. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylo...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Let's ask the old white guys: Revisiting last Saturday's dismal "spotlight" on street reconversion.

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It's taken me a week to arrive at a juncture where it strikes me as obvious that beating these dead horses is fruitless. By ...
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Saturday, June 04, 2016

"How Europe’s industrial cities bounced back from the brink of ruin."

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Reusing what's already there, re-skilling people ... recycle, remake and regrow ... but nowhere is it explained how TIF-driven campai...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

On Leicester, football and city -- with a musical interlude to boot.

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Prior to the start of the campaign, oddsmakers tabbed Leicester City at 5,000 - 1 to win the Premier League title. The Premier League is...
Sunday, February 07, 2016

Newspaper editorial board votes 4 - 1 in favor of New Albany's downtown "revival," local businesses and two-way streets.

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Granted, all the dots don't connect in terms of editorial logic. OUR OPINION: City's 'Main Street' revival fuels regio...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Falling Run: NA's "waterfront revival" prospect?

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Locals will recall Tom Galligan's plan for creating a Jeffersonville canal from scratch as a means of channeling storm water and jump...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Mailer Wars '15: Barksdale dares to mention the "d" word.

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You have to admire David Barksdale for leading off with a vow to "take downtown revitalization to the next level," not becau...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Officer, you've got the wrong man. It wasn't me who got all symbolic with that one-way street sign.

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Friday night or Saturday morning. On second thought, maybe we're expecting rain, and there are no more stop signs to use as drain ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

A true renaissance (anywhere) "must be sparked by the empowerment of existing residents."

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Fundamentally better NA. Gill Holland made a few good points during his talk last week at the Green Building in NuLu. Given New Albany...
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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Falling Run 1: An example at Beargrass Creek?

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Read "Beargrass Creek," and think "Falling Run." Beargrass Creek and the road to revitalization , by Kevin Gibson ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

In reply, John Gonder quite properly references Cassius: "The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

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Cribbed from somewhere on the Internetz. I'm glad John told me about his published reply, as I'd missed it on Sunday. Here'...
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...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Damn it, John Gonder: Help revitalization and small business prospects downtown with two-way streets!

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There is an article today by Daniel Suddeath in the News and Tribune  in which the state of small business success/failure in downtown Ne...