Archive for September, 2006

ULI week follow-up

Posted by Heather B on September 30th, 2006

Springfield City Hall has posted the ULI panel’s final presentation (PDF) online.
NPR affiliate station WFCR’s Tina Antolini covered the ULI panel’s visit all week, collecting hours of audio footage. Antolini deftly condensed the report into a scant ten minutes or so in a piece that aired yesterday. The Republican’s Azell Murphy Cavaan could also be […]

More details on State Street progress

Posted by Heather B on September 30th, 2006

George O’Brien wrote an article for the June 12 issue of BusinessWest about developments along Springfield’s State Street corridor. The story is that rare breed of news article that takes a close look at the design considerations, with a nod to the process that the commissioned engineering firm, VHB, has been undergoing for months now. […]

A home for Urban Compass

Posted by Heather B on September 29th, 2006

This blog has been asleep for a few months, while the hustle and bustle of summer did its thing. But it’s about to see a lot more action for a couple of weeks, while my blog Urban Compass transitions from one home (the city paper) to a new home (the local alternative weekly). For those […]