Friends of Downtown
Date:
Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Friends of the Downtown Meeting
Thursday, July 29, 2010
10:00 AM, coffee starting at 9:30 AM
Franklin Hotel, 311 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
The Friends of the Downtown will be hosting Dan Douglas, Director of Urban Planning and Urban Design for Kling Stubbins, the consulting firm hired by the Town of Chapel Hill and the Downtown Partnership to develop the Downtown Development Framework & Action Plan; a guide for downtown development for the next five to eight years. (http://www.downtownchapelhill.com/onecol.php?s=development&ss=Development+Framework+%26+Action+Plan&det=5) Douglas will present the draft plan for public comments and questions.
The Friends of the Downtown August 26th meeting will feature a speaker discussing the future development at University Square; 123 West Franklin (http://www.123westfranklin.com/).
Parking is available behind the hotel. For information on public transit options - please click here http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=1176. Friends of the Downtown meetings are free and open to the public.
For more information please contact Pat Evans at patevans (at) bellsouth.net.
Date:
Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 5:30am
Location:
Franklin Hotel, 311 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
From a Downtown Partnership e-mail:
Downtown Candidate's Forum!
Thursday, September 24
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
University Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall
With the election season in full swing in Chapel Hill, many of the
candidates for Mayor and Town Council have picked Downtown Chapel Hill
as a key component of their campaign platforms. Join the Friends of the
Downtown for a Candidate's Forum where caandidates will be discussing
what they believe are the most important issues for downtown. There
will be time for the audience to ask questions. Coffee and refreshments
will be served. Entrance to the church is at 110 Henderson Street,
through the Campus Ministry door. Parking is available in the Wallace
Parking Deck on the corner of Henderson Street and Rosemary Street. For
more information please contact Pat Evans at
patevans@bellsouth.net.
Date:
Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 5:00am
Location:
First Presbyterian Church Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
In speaking to the Friends of Pat Evans, err, I mean Friends of Downtown, Meadowmont developer and Board of Trustees Chair Roger Perry identified the same problems that I have been talking about in regards to Chapel Hill's downtown.
"You have to treat downtown with deference," Perry
said. "You've got to put more money into downtown than into outlying
areas." That means more and better lighting and, in the case of one
particular area, sidewalks.
"That we don't have sidewalks along Rosemary all the way is nuts," he said. "We're tying an arm behind our backs." [...]
Perry saved his most critical words for the
"irresponsible ownership" of some downtown buildings. Without
mentioning specific names, he riffed on "absentee owners" who don't act
as good stewards of the town or their properties, allowing buildings to
slip below fire code standards and otherwise exhibiting no sense of
urgency in filling vacancies in prime retail locations.
Am I the only person who thinks it's funny that they expect the friends of downtown to drive to this meeting?
Friends of Downtown Meeting
Thursday, January 31
10:00 am
The Franklin Hotel
The Franklin Hotel is located at 311 West Franklin Street. Parking
is available behind the hotel. Please get a tag for your car from the
front desk.
Date:
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 5:00am to 6:00am
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