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Vermillion Downtown's Penultimate Third Place to Shutter after the Holidays6 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

A.j. wrote 1 month ago: … more →

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 Milwaukee4 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

Think global, spend local-and the role of downtown now

Donna Ann Harris wrote 6 months ago: In a recent article in Slate, the on line magazine, there was an excellent article about the role of … more →

Tags: Downtown Revitalization, main street

The Greatest Threat to Our Existence: Cul-de-sacs!

Placemaker wrote 7 months ago: … more →

Tags: Walkable Cities, Leaveable Cities, Sprawl, Pedestrians

What Can Knoxville Do to Improve?

Placemaker wrote 7 months ago: One of my comments over at a local Knoxville blog, The Sunsphere is Not a Wigshop, spurred another p … more →

Tags: streets, Sprawl, Land Use, bicycling, Pedestrians, Public Transportation

Charter of the New Urbanism

Placemaker wrote 9 months ago: Reprinted from the website of The Congress for the New Urbanism. The Congress for the New Urbanism v … more →

Tags: Walkable Cities

Vision Fairbanks lives to fight another day -- but just barely4 comments

Paul Adasiak wrote 10 months ago: A quick news flash, because I’m tired: Jerry Cleworth’s resolution, which I think would … more →

Tags: city planning, Driving, Politics


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