If the primary vision for Savannah’s Canal District is just to help tourists find their way to the new Arena, then it will have failed before it’s even begun.
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Editor’s Note: History + $$$ + Downtown = ???
The National Trust for Historic Preservation comes here just as we face the most contentious period of downtown development since Merritt Dixon plonked the modernist cube of the Hyatt Regency down onto River Street.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Slow-vannah’ no more?
BACK IN FEBRUARY, on a blustery cold day on Broughton Street, developer Ben Carter addressed an eager crowd at his first local press conference—the kind of event usually reserved for […]
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Opening night of Savannah Rocks!
Loosely chronicled and gleefully chaotic, the collective result evokes a giant party that started in 1957 and is still screaming along full throttle.
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Year in Review: Local news
“They gave everyone two hours to change voicemail, clean up and secure the buildings,” Amy Ochoa, a ranger at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.
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Streetcar meeting planned for Monday
There will be a special meeting Monday, December 9, at 5 p.m. at City Hall for a “Streetcar Vision Presentation” given to Mayor Jackson and City Council by Chadwick Reese, […]
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Editor’s Note: A streetcar named — ah, screw it
In a nutshell, CAT’s proposal involves two parallel north/south lines, one on MLK and one on Fahm Street, in the same exact sector of the northwest quadrant, bounded by Gwinnett to the south.
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Editor’s Note: Is SPLOST lost?
Nick Doms says ironically the arena, the item intended to put a glamorous sheen on SPLOST, may prove its undoing.”Drainage is no longer sexy to voters. But the arena was a bad calculation from the city’s perspective.”
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Editor’s Note: A (foot) bridge too far
It’s no accident the Westside plan was unveiled a few weeks before the public will vote whether to extend the SPLOST penny tax, chiefly to fund the arena.
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City unveils ‘Canal District’ plan for Westside arena
Savannah City Manager Stephanie Cutter unveiled to City Council today a vision for the site of the proposed new arena and surrounding Canal District. The plan to redevelop the Canal […]
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Editor’s Note: Civic (Center) pride
Despite the high dollars involved, choosing an arena site in order to spur localized development in one particular neighborhood is small-time thinking.