Don’t forget to check the conference blog at http://www.mainstreetlive09.blogspot.com/
Also, our state dinner is Monday at Italian Village at 6pm. Meet in the hotel lobby at 5:30. Bring cash. It’s $30 for food, tax & tip.
THIS WEEK - MARCH 1-4 : NATIONAL MAIN STREETS CONFERENCE, CHICAGO, IL
MARCH 15-17: GOVERNOR’S CONFERENCE ON TOURISM, FORT SMITH
MAY 14-16 : ARKANSAS PRESERVATION CONFERENCE, EUREKA SPRINGS
SEPTEMBER 14-16: DESTINATION DOWNTOWN, EL DORADO
Main Street Arkansas Calendar February 23 - , 2009
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MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY Cary – National Main Streets Conference; Greg, Caroline, Susan – annual leave
FRIDAY Cary, Greg, Caroline, Susan, Nancy – National Main Streets Conference
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IN THIS ISSUE:
How The Economic Crash Will Reshape America
Light Rail in Central AR?
$2.5 Million Teardown in LR
LR Considers Selling Ray Winder/Park Land
400 Block of LR’s Main Street to be Demolished
Kane Webb Column on Demo
El Dorado Promise
Comments on Main Street & Rebuttal
Endorsement by DG of Preservation Tax Credit & HB 1060
How The Economic Crash Will Reshape America
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography
Light Rail in Central Arkansas?
http://www.arkansasplanning.org/?p=34
$2.5 Million Teardown in LR
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=112202
LR Considers Selling Ray Winder/Park Land
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/feb/18/lr-reboots-ray-winder-bid-process-20090218/?news/arkansas (subscriber only, sorry)
400 Block of Main Street to be Destroyed
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/feb/18/main-street-demolitions-get-go-signal-20090218/?subscriber/national (subscriber only, sorry)
- demolition seems to be the name of the game in the Capital City in recent months. At the risk of hyperbole, it feels like the new age of Urban Renewal has hit LR.
Kane Webb Gets It Right (again) Regarding the Demolition in Downtown LR
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/252795
El Dorado Hopes “the Promise” Brings Back the Golden Days
http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=112189
Comments & Rebuttal about Main Street
http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1233655126221430.xml&coll=1
http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/02/downtown_rebuttal.html
Endorsement of the Preservation Tax Credit & HB 1060
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/feb/19/editorials-help-save-arkansas-20090219/ (subscriber only, sorry)
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