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  1. Urban Space with a View Development Department 19-Apr-2013
  2. What's For Lunch Development Department 05-Apr-2013
  3. For the Love of Montgomery Development Department 25-Mar-2013
  4. City Hall’s ‘Front Porch’ Development Department 15-Mar-2013
  5. What if we had 10K’s of connected trails in East Montgomery? Development Department 08-Mar-2013

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    Urban Space with a View

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    If you have driven down Maxwell Blvd in the last few day, you may notice a change.  Boat Ramp Park recently received it’s first phase of new sod, near the river view.  The next phase is being laid today.  In conjunction, the design studio submitted recommended façade improvements to the Salvation Army.  One option includes painting the exterior brick, while the other shows painted wood trim with exiting brick.  These include landscaping around the new parking lot that will be installed.  Keep your eyes peeled for continued improvements to Maxwell in the next few months.


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    What's For Lunch

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    What’s For Lunch?

    It’s a question everyone asks the same time every day Monday through Friday about 10:30 every morning.  Even those of us who try to save a few pennies and bring something to work with us want something different from time to time.  Downtown Montgomery has added some exciting places to eat over the past few years and there are some old favorites that never let us down.  But coming this Summer there will be a new and exciting option for us lunch-goers.  Super Suppers will open Montgomery’s first official food truck in May and will be stationed in the parking lot of the old State House Inn at Madison and Jackson.  Although the menu has not been officially released a sneak peek has some exciting stuff for us all and at reasonable prices.  Food trucks have been popular in other cities like Birmingham and Atlanta for years but have never seemed to drift southward until now.  The City held a competition of local restaurants to see what they could “bring to the table” and it was no easy choice.  The competition created a lot of buzz and there are hopes of a second truck coming downtown in the coming months.  Downtown is has once again become an exciting place to work with plenty of lunch options and of course plenty of after work options too.
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    For the Love of Montgomery

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    Last week over 50 Montgomerians gathered to talk about what they love about their city.  The ideas and laughter filled Hampstead’s Tipping Point as the author of For the Love of Cities Peter Kageyama reminding everyone why we LOVE Montgomery.  Post-It notes, crayons and markers had the group’s creative juices flowing with over 100 different ideas for everything from t-shirts, starting new traditions and reviving old ones to simple, inexpensive solutions to everyday neighborhood problems.

    The room was filled with people who have lived in Montgomery their entire lives to those who just moved here.  The common thread among them all was that Montgomery is an exciting city and we are all eager to tell everyone about what we love about it.  The working groups were as diverse as one could imagine but amazingly common ideas came from each group during the workshop’s various activities.  Ideas from a street long dinner affair down Dexter Avenue to Kentucky Derby style activities on Goat Hill and a variety of activities celebrating Montgomery Biscuits baseball strengthened the great sense of community and willingness to fellowship with one another we all have.

    The day ended on a high note with everyone encouraged and energized to go out and do great things for the Love of Montgomery.  Stay tuned as many of these ideas have already begun to materialize into reality.
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    City Hall’s ‘Front Porch’

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    Have you ever walked up under the huge old oak trees across from City Hall?  These beautiful landmarks are iconic images of the south.  They create a canopy of shade coveted by most city dwellers during the long hot summer months.  Currently, these trees sit in a park almost uninhabited by the public.

    The Development Department is working on several renovation designs that would draw pedestrians into the park to eat their lunch or take a stroll.  The designs focus on comfortable seating groups and well groomed walking paths and incorporate the sunny plaza space around the newly refurbished water fountain.  As the air gets warmer, look for park improvements in the coming months.
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    What if we had 10K’s of connected trails in East Montgomery?

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    Woodmere Arts Park, Blount Cultural Park, and Ida Belle Young Natural Park offer a series of running and/or biking trails.  If you zoom out on google earth, you will discover that these three parks are only separated by a road on each side.  Adding a  few crosswalks & connector paths would create enough continuous path to run/ walk a 10k across all three parks.  Each of these parks offer some of the most picturesque pastoral views in the city. 

    Stay tuned for more on the Development Studio’s plan for the East Montgomery Park Trail.

    Lydia T. Shows, RID, LEED AP
    Design Studio Professional