Horizon of Development: Themes for Downtown
1. Efforts to create more parking, in the form of garages– beware of parking becoming dislocated from the actual stores. Bedford Square has achieved success by adding parking on their property; soon...
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The Bulletin Board — every little town has one except W
The new Levitt Pavilion /Photo: Greenburbs.com Now — there is no longer a bulletin board downtown. We need a new one and it should go in a little kiosk at Jesup Green. A town center without a bulletin...
View ArticleGunn House proposal logic falls apart
Have you ever taken a stroll down Myrtle Avenue? If you have you would notice a house, owned by Drew Friedman, 73 Myrtle Ave. It doesn’t look like it fits in with the rest in that row. All the other...
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Stirring the Dragon’s Nest
At the first selectmen’s meeting on Wednesday morning it was obvious that Jim Marpe had already made up his mind about signing off on the lease of town-owned land for 99 years. He said, “I wish you had...
View ArticleDrew Friedman GUNN/History Speech
Moving the Gunn House Drew Friedman – 08/13/2014 Thank you for the opportunity to address you, and voice my opinions. Moving the Gunn House to the Baldwin Parking Lot will require you to remove...
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Labyrinthinian Future of Downtown
Downtown / photo: Todd Tracy Downtown is a maze of little alley ways and cut thru-s; they were saying at the Cherette summery discussions Saturday; there could be more signage. I would suggest that...
View ArticleCharrette – couple good things
Well, I was watching again, over at westportct.gov. They were wrapping up the Charrette — and to my surprise — the outside planning guy actually had a couple good ideas. I go by personality with these...
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Got Schooled — PZ subcommittee
Cars embrace river all year round, thank GOD, imagine having to walk out to see the river in February with the ice and rain. If they turn this road into a green park nobody will see the river for 8...
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Out On a Limb
I will never forget that early morning a few years back. I was in my studio composing rather complicated musical arrangements for one of these popular BBC tele programs. “What in order?” “that noise!”...
View ArticleDowntown Plan finalized!
The new downtown plan was agreed upon by the full downtown steering committee, only Morley Boyd voted against. Basically it was the committee voting for its own report. However it was a great...
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