The first of three Downtown Strategic Plan Public Meetings was scheduled to be held tonight (the snow canceled it, and it should be rescheduled soon) but I can’t help but think that yesterday’s Dispatch article about the North Market by Robert Vitale was timed intentionally for this event.
The article starts off by looking back 20 years to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘downtown’
Robert Vitale Makes the Case for Urban Incubators
CU’s Downtown Move Featured on NBC4i
This video feature was on NBC4i yesterday evening. Good stuff! Thanks NBC4! (The written version can be found here).
The New Office
Got my desks & chair assembled yesterday. Give it two weeks and all of the surface space will be complete buried under papers, cables, receipts and empty cans of Red Bull.
ColumbusUnderground.com is Moving to Gay Street
Press Release:
ColumbusUnderground.com Relocating to New Office Space Downtown on Gay Street
To continue ColumbusUnderground.com’s commitment to the growing vibrancy of Downtown Columbus, Walker Evans is moving the company’s office to a space on one of the city’s most vibrant areas - Gay Street. Since the recent completion of the two-way conversion and beautification projects, Gay Street [...]
Parking Meter Rate Increase Halted For Study
Originally posted HERE on ColumbusUnderground.com:
The previously approved 50% parking rate increase throughout Downtown and The Short North has been halted for six months pending further study and additional recommendations by the parking meter working group assigned to oversee rate adjustments. The resetting of the meters will begin as early as tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone who helped [...]
Online Petition for Parking Meter Rate Increase
This was originally posted HERE on CU by John Angelo of the SNBA:
In November, Columbus’ Director of Public Service imposed a unilateral 50% parking meter rate increase throughout Columbus. The policy was approved by the mayor. Due to the way Columbus’ policies are written, neither city council nor the general populace were invited to weigh [...]
Dispatch Letter to the Editor on Parking Meters
It just ran today, and is a slightly modified version of what I sent to multiple offices within City Hall and the Public Service Department last week. You can read it here:
Hike in meter rates Downtown will hurt
More Bad News About the Columbus Casino
I admit that when the call was first made that Issue 3 had passed and that Ohio would be getting casinos, I was ready to give up and let it happen. What’s done is done, right?
Wrong.
While folks in Cleveland and Cincinnati and Toledo might feel differently, the voters in Central Ohio said that they did [...]
Parking Meters: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
In many instances, I’ve been impressed with some of the parking-related adjustments that have come out of City Hall lately.
The scooter & motorcycle parking initiative that was rolled out last year was done in a swift and effective manner to provide not only additional parking revenue for the city, but also to provide a progressive [...]
CMCpm - Urban Columbus 2012 - 11/10 5:30pm
More here: LINK
“Urban Columbus 2012″
What does Urban Columbus look like in 2012? Will we enjoy a thriving cosmopolitan feel and where might it come from? A rich look at some of C-bus’s finest moments of the past and present with some inspired visions of the future!
Panelists will include Mark Fienknopf, Walker Evans and [...]