Posts Tagged ‘Streamline Moderne’

ART EXCHANGE TAKES TWO STEPS TOWARD REALITY

February 3, 2009

If you were born the year that they dreamed up the idea for an Art Exchange downtown–and you were a guy–your voice would be changing, if it hadn’t already.
You’d be breaking out, looking at dames, thinking about driving–maybe even growing a cheesy mustache. You’d be turning 15 this year–that’s how long the Art Exchange concept [...]

RDA BOARD TAKES ONE MORE STEP TOWARD A NEW COURTHOUSE

February 2, 2009

In the first 90 minutes of its first meeting this month, the city Redevelopment Agency board tackled more projects than it’s seen in … well, at least a month.
“This is what happens when you leave us alone for a month and we don’t have to have a meeting in January,” joked RDA Assistant Executive Director [...]

SCENES FROM THE ACRES OF BOOKS SALE

April 22, 2008

The Smith family’s sale of its soon-to-be 75-year-old bookstore Acres of Books to the city was accomplished a few weeks ago. Yesterday’s Redevelopment Agency meeting merely made it official, putting an exact price and terms on the deal: $2,854,000–which includes closing costs, relocation costs and cost costs.
We kid; there are no cost costs. But

PHIL-ING THEIR PAIN

March 2, 2008

TV’s Dr. Phil wants to hug it out with the Second District’s convicted sex offenders
Britney Spears: so yesterday! Dr. Phil McGraw–television’s Oprah-approved, magnolia-mouthed mother hen–has a new cause celebre: the convicted sex offenders who live in that vintage Streamline Moderne apartment complex in the 1100 block of East First Street.

 

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