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#loveourdowntowns

Submitted by Molly De Marco on July 11, 2016 - 8:46am

The Chapel Hill and Carrboro downtowns are vibrant spaces where you can find good food, great music, art, lectures, run into friends and jump on a Chapel Hill Transit bus for free. Some residents have started sharing what they love about our downtowns over on Twitter with the hashtag #loveourdowntowns. Here's a collection of what's been shared so far. Join in on Twitter or share your thoughts on this thread. We'll post another set soon

 

Why Chapel Hill Doesn’t Have More Startups, in One Chart

Submitted by Travis Crayton on June 8, 2016 - 3:15pm

In early 2015, UNC-Chapel Hill released an extensive report about the business startups and spinoffs that faculty, students, and alumni have created. This report quantifies the impact of these businesses: 150+ businesses, 8,000 jobs created, and $7 billion in annual revenue for the state of North Carolina.

But what this report doesn’t detail is the direct impact of these startups and spinoffs on our local economy here in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Orange County. There’s a pretty simple reason for that: Few startups coming out of UNC stay in our community.  So why can’t Chapel Hill foster a local startup scene when other college towns, like Boulder and Cambridge, have gotten national attention for the startup economies they’ve developed in their own communities?

Parking in Carrboro

Submitted by MLouis on December 12, 2013 - 8:00am

After reading yet another article about the parking "problem" in downtown Carrboro/Chapel Hill, I thought it'd be worth revisiting solutions to this problem. (Or maybe non-problem, I've never had trouble parking in either town, so I don't really know what people are talking about, unless their definition of parking is parking within a  1/10th mile of the business/restaurant they wish to visit).

Rosemary Imagined Process - Next Steps

Submitted by Molly De Marco on November 2, 2013 - 4:16pm
The Rosemary Imagined Neighborhood Project Team, which is helping guide the process for the Town of Chapel Hill and the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, met again on November 1, 2013 to discuss next steps for the development of a Rosemary Street Concept. We were given a summary of the feedback that has been garnered from the process so far.

Carrboro Community Conversation on Zoning: A Downtown Destination

Submitted by Molly De Marco on September 15, 2013 - 12:30pm
The third and final in a series of community conversations on zoning by Carrboro Planning Board.

Date: 

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

The ArtsCenter

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