Main Street Arkansas Update - November 3, 2008

Main Street Arkansas Calendar November 3 - 7

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MONDAY Nancy – Dumas; Susan, Sheridan (am); Susan & Caroline – Harrison (pm)
TUESDAY Election Day – go vote (if you haven’t already)
WEDNESDAY Susan & Mark – El Dorado
THURSDAY Susan & Mark – Searcy
FRIDAY
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IN THIS ISSUE:
New Staff for Main Street Rogers
Main Street West Memphis Branding
Rector Press
SoMa Sculpture Garden
El Dorado Press
Siloam Springs Press
Hardy Press
DeWitt Press
NEA’s Your Town Workshop
Art, Craft & the Creative Economy in the Natural State Workshop
Diane Keaton’s Preservation Editorial
Green Meeting Practices in Arkansas
Dear Farmer & Chief
NEA Universal Design Grant
LR Hot Market in a Cold Economic Climate

Kerry Jensen to lead Main Street Rogers
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2008/10/20/news/102108rzmsrannounce.txt
http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/67008/

MSWM Branding Press:
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=109150

MSWM Kitchen Incubator Press:
http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2008/10/27/story5.html?b=1225080000%5e1721582&surround=etf

Rector MSA & Downtown Network Press:
http://www.claycountydemocrat.com/story/1472170.html

SoMa Sculpture Garden
The Southside Main Street Project announces a competition to select four sculptures to be placed in the Bernice Garden at Daisy Bates and South Main. This is a public-private partnership between the SoMa organization and Anita Davis, the owner and developer of the Garden. It is being funded by Main Street Arkansas and private donations. For more details, an application form and deadlines, please go to
www.southsidemain.org.

Main Street El Dorado’s Mutt Strut
http://www.eldoradonews.com/news/localnews/2008/10/27/first-mutt-strut-30.php

Good Siloam Springs Press:
http://www.nwanews.com/hl/News/25943/

Room With A Boo. A Haunted Downtown Hardy Antique Mall?:
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/241853/print/
It’s for sale on ebay. It can be yours for $125,000

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Hardy-Hotel-Antique-Mall-Business-Property-HAUNTED_W0QQitemZ330263590953QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item330263590953&_trkparms=72%3A1416%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1309&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Good DeWitt Press:
http://www.dewitt-ee.com/articles/2008/10/01/news/news02.txt

http://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/news/x282369158/DeWitt-PRIDE-kicks-off

Your Town Design Workshop
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will be funding four Your Town: The Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design workshops and are seeking your interest in producing a workshop between now and November 2009. This is an opportunity to bring design professionals to your community to help you tackle critical regional planning and design issues. Up to $22,000 will be available to a non-profit organization for each workshop.
http://www.yourtowndesign.org/

Deadline: December 12

Thanks to Renee Doty for this one:
ART AND CRAFT IN THE CREATIVE ECONOMY OF THE NATURAL STATE
a workshop for public planners and leaders
The Arkansas Craft School is providing a significant workshop focusing on the support and economic impact of small creative industries. The workshop entitled “Art and Craft in the Creative Economy of the Natural State - a workshop for public planners and leaders” is scheduled for November 11-12, 2008, on the campus of the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas.

http://www.laffing-horse.com/arkansascraftschool/

Diane Keaton, avowed preservationist’s editorial on saving LA’s Ambassador Hotel:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-keaton13-2008oct13,0,3706817.story

Green Meeting Practices in Arkansas:
http://arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=108845

Dear Farmer & Chief:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

NEA Universal Design Grant
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=43227
Universal design is a design process that goes beyond minimum codes and standards to make spaces comfortably usable by people from childhood into their oldest years. It is not, as many mistakenly view it, the practice of meeting minimum access requirements. The Arts Endowment recognizes design’s ever present role in everyday life and is committed to encouraging and disseminating the best in universal design for the benefit of the American public. The NEA, with its national perspective and commitment to artistic excellence, is in a unique position to exercise a leadership role in this area

LR Hot Market in Cold Economic Climate
http://arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=109270

Neighborhood Stabilization Program Grants
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/neighborhoodspg/