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Friday Night Live Gets Expanded "Beer Garden"

The Belmont City Council last night approved the request from the Downtown Merchants Association to expand the “beer garden” for Friday Night Live. The new area extends from the Caravan pa… more →

The Belmont Front Porch

Vermillion Downtown's Penultimate Third Place to Shutter after the Holidays — 6 comments

flyingtomato wrote 5 days ago: Will the Coffee Shop Gallery find a new owner? Photo by Mandan Lynn from Igougo.com Scuttlebutt on t … more →

Tags: Community, Random Personal, Coffee Shop Gallery, Economy, Project for Public Spaces, South Dakota, Third Places, Vermillion

Livable Community-Revitalization Initiatives (Destiny Driver #10) — 2 comments

stevensforward wrote 1 week ago: By 2015 revitalization initiatives will energize our downtowns and retail centers, increasing commer … more →

Tags: Business, Chamber of Commerce, Commercial, Community, mall, Redevelopment, retail centers, Retail Sales, revitalization initiatives

Finding and Nurturing Homegrown Entreprenuers

bethplutchak wrote 3 weeks ago: Part One – Defining the Process of how businesses function, grow and contribute to the communi … more →

Tags: Economic Development

Conference Notes

bethplutchak wrote 1 month ago: It was a successful conference on Recapturing Your Downtown in Wausau on October 22nd. The keynote s … more →

Tags: Economic Development

Back Downtown

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Tags: Architecture, Art, Artist, Artists, Baby Boomers, backyards, Blogging, Buildings, Culture

It's All About the Lincolns

Erin wrote 2 months ago: This post started with me wanting to take a glass-blowing class. I thought I’d make a pretty v … more →

Tags: Nights on the Town, Coffee, Mr. Wonderful, Being A Social Butterfly,, Plays, Art Exhibits, Sporting Events, Jesus, Concerts

The New Face of Downtown Milwaukee — 4 comments

urbanengagement wrote 2 months ago: Exploring the historic role of America’s downtowns as centers of civic connection has long bee … more →

Tags: downtown renewal, Milwaukee Downtown

Recapturing Your Downtown

bethplutchak wrote 2 months ago: Make plans to attend this downtown conference in Wausau, WI. There will be breakout sessions on sust … more →

Tags: Economic Development

For want of a nail... — 3 comments

Paul Adasiak wrote 3 months ago: Corrected 20 August 2009 Readers of today’s News-Miner will already know: the FMATS Policy Com … more →

Tags: Driving, Streets / roads / etc.

Sine's 5 & 10 Store Quakertown PA - A Great Find! — 4 comments

Mod Betty / Retro Roadmap wrote 4 months ago: I recently revisited Sine’s 5 & 10 in Quakertown PA, one of my key Retro Roadmap finds sin … more →

Tags: vintage shop, Vintage Signs, Pennsylvania retro, vintage, Downtown, vintage, Sines, $5-10, FIVE and DIME, Quakertown

Red Couch opens; Gambardella's closes (for breakfast) — 2 comments

Paul Adasiak wrote 5 months ago: The red couch (and chair) of Red Couch Trading Post I write this from the latest treasure to open do … more →

Tags: food and eating, Local Businesses

cities + arenas

danc22 wrote 5 months ago: Yesterday’s New York Times featured an excellent article on the glut of sports arenas in the N … more →

Tags: Cities, Stadiums, arenas, Sports Facilities, large scale urban redevelopment, Urban Design, Urban Economics, Newark (N.J.), New York Region

Gambardella's does breakfast! — 8 comments

Paul Adasiak wrote 6 months ago: Summer patio at Gambardella's Holy cats! Gambardella’s is now doing breakfast, and it … more →

Colonial Theatre - Jewel In The Crown of Small Town Downtown

Mod Betty / Retro Roadmap wrote 6 months ago: The jewel in the crown of the downtown revitalization efforts of Phoenixville PA, the Colonial Theat … more →

Tags: Vintage Signs, Pennsylvania retro, vintage, old theater, Kitsch, Downtown, Phoenixville, Blob, Theater, Vaudeville