Main Street Arkansas Update - December 3, 2007

December 3 - 7, 2007
Monday - Cary & Caroline - Conway
Tuesday - Susan & Mark – Texarkana; Greg – Batesville
Wednesday - Susan - Conway
Thursday -
Friday –

Check out Main Street Paragould’s new website at www.mainstreetparagould.info

IN THIS ISSUE:
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NLR Prepares for New Urbanism
TIF District’s Creation Supported by UALR Study
NLR Riverfront Development
Downtown Heber Springs Looking Up
AgriTourism Article
Falling Home Sales May Stifle Urban Revitalization
Make It An Arkie Christmas
Mega Moves
ZipSkinny.com – get the low down on your zip code
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The latest issue of Arkansas Business focuses on Downtown Redevelopment.

NLR Prepares for New Urbanism
http://arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?lID=61&sID=77&ms=62&cID=Z&aID=101157.12610.113283
http://arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=100938
- nice pull quote in the hard copy issue from Michael Drake

related note: UALR study supports need for TIF District in NLR
http://www.rockwatervillage.com/newsrelease.html

and
KTHV: NLR Development Will Change Riverfront
http://www.rockwatervillage.com/thvnov.html

Downtown Redevelopment Looking Up in Heber Springs
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=100927
- nice quote from Mary Margaret about ADN and MSA

Down on the Farm with Your Sleeves Rolled Up – AgriTourism
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/travel/escapes/23agritourism.html?pagewanted=print

Falling Home Sales May Stifle Urban Revitalization
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16650420&sc=emaf

Make It an Arkie Christmas
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=eac5bb05-a4c2-496d-b502-435c5e19a881
- nice mention of the ArkansasDelta Made program

MEGA MOVES

Historic Preservation Office,

My name is Lee Reading and I’m a researcher with Windfall Films in the UK. We produce the US television show MEGA MOVES for the National Geographic and the Discovery channels (http://www.windfallfilms.com/html/productions/monstermoves.htm).

Our programmes aim to film the entire journey of whole structures being moved from one location to another, hopefully giving an audience something they haven’t seen before. I’m currently looking for historic buildings that are due for relocation; be they stone cottages, farm houses, train depots, monuments, wooden barns or even giant machinery. As long as they have interesting back stories, history, character and an interesting move route, I’d be interested in putting them forward for filming. We’d very much like to work with the each state’s Historic Preservation Office should they be involved in any projects, or know of any projects, over the next month or two. These films should provide excellent publicity to all those involved, as well as the building themselves.

If you have anything in the pipeline or know of a project coming up, wherever it maybe, feel free to send me an email, fax me or drop me a line and I shall investigate further. Any information or pictures you have would be extremely useful to the third season of Mega Moves.

Lee Reading
Researcher/ Coordinator UK
Windfall Films

T: +44 (0)207 251 7656
F: +44 (0)207 253 8468
lee@windfallfilms.com

Woman preserving history of Japanese-American internment in Arkansas
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/11/27/News/344163.html

thanks to CEOs for Cities for this:
ZIPSkinny.com
Want quick stats on your neighborhood? Check out ZIPSkinny.com. While not a substitute for more thorough research, this handy website provides an easy reference to compare zip codes on a number of factors including population density, median age, education and many others. Based on Census 2000 data the site does note that it should be used only as a “first glance” at a ZIP Code area, not as a source of hard facts upon which to base a decision. Regardless, it is still very exciting to have data at your fingertips to explore.