Commercial Mortgages Show How Bad It Got
July 6, 2012Larry Webb represents Hincapies in purchase of La Bastide
July 11, 2012Church Street, the partly reconstructed artery that skirts downtown to the east, is now prettier, bike-friendlier and somewhat slower to drive.
With the $5.1 million effort to remake the boulevard from a blistering bypass into a part of the city center comes with wide sidewalks and tree-filled medians but also the loss of some driving space and rush-hour back-ups, though complaints so far seem to be few.
City officials say the new road makes for smoother traffic, though not all the kinks have been ironed out.
The long-awaited redesign, initially funded by the federal stimulus, marks an attempt to soften downtown’s concrete collar, reconnect a lower-income neighborhood cleaved in two by the thoroughfare and open the door to the kind of development that’s now beginning to take shape.
To read full article, click here.
