Well this Friday, June 13th will be the second annual sort of "open house" by Destination Downtown at Peratrovich Park at 4th and E from 5:30 to 7:30. Like last year, this years event will have reps of projects around downtown available for one on one questions and comments as well as renderings, charts, and all that other stuff that comes with the PR. I headed down to last years event and I gotta say, it was really great to see this proactive effort on the part of the city to inform the public on the going on's in this town. Now last years event had booths dedicated to the new convention center, parking garage, and museum along with some minor private residential projects. This year, I can't say there's a lot new going on. Hopefully I'll be surprised by some new private projects that I was somehow unaware of -- but knowing myself, if there's a project out there, I'm probably aware of it by now.
On a side note, I recently noticed that the city's 'Destination Downtown' website is now listing the Augustine Energy Center as one of the numerous projects in downtown. So the project is still on eh? Groundbreaking for the tower was supposed to be this spring. We'll see if a team repping the tower will be at Fridays event. Ditto for the newly proposed Crystal Plaza (though it may be too early). btw I'm also looking forward to playing in the worlds largest sandbox, as the Destination Downtown flier in todays ADN mentions.
Update - Well just as I had feared, there looks to be nothing major except for plans to plant trees and add bike racks. Other than that, no new developments. Reps for the Augustine tower did have a presence yesterday as our only private development this year, but other than that, nothing else new. Also no "worlds largest sandbox" which the ads on the newspapers were hyping. Lame.
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