Tag: downtown core
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After Decades of Deferred Repairs, Community College’s Downtown Building Finally Gets a Facelift
Bellwater Community College broke ground on a $14.6 million renovation of its downtown campus, the building’s first major overhaul since it opened.
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A Vacant Vale Avenue Storefront Becomes a Classroom for Kincaid’s Arts Journalists
Eighteen Kincaid University arts journalism students spent the semester profiling local artists and curating a pop-up exhibit inside a previously vacant Vale Avenue storefront, testing whether student journalism can help fill downtown’s empty windows.
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With Office Towers Half Empty, Downtown Bellwater Looks to Housing
With downtown office vacancy above 23 percent, developers have proposed converting two Vale Avenue towers into apartments, setting up a fight over tax abatements and affordability requirements.
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How Ledger & Leaf Books Outlasted Two Recessions and a Pandemic on Vale Avenue
Vale Avenue’s Ledger & Leaf Books turns twenty this weekend, having outlasted chain bookstores and online retail even as rising downtown rents and a changing customer base test its next chapter.
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After Months of Organizing, Millhouse Café Staff Certify a Union
Baristas at The Millhouse Café voted 11-3 to unionize, citing rent pressure and schedule cuts, in a rare organizing win at a downtown Vale Avenue small business.
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New Vendors Join Vale Avenue Farmers Market as Season Begins
The Vale Avenue Farmers Market opened its season Saturday with eight new vendor stalls and its largest-ever applicant waitlist, reflecting rising demand for the roughly forty stalls the market can fit downtown.
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Farmers Market Bets on Vale Avenue Foot Traffic Through the Cold Months
The Vale Avenue Farmers Market is adding a six-Saturday holiday pop-up season, backed by a $22,000 Chamber of Commerce grant, to keep downtown foot traffic alive through the colder months.
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Vale Avenue Vacancy Rate Falls as Storefront Fee Ordinance Marks First Year
Downtown Core’s storefront vacancy rate fell to 11.4 percent this quarter, the first sustained decline in years, though city officials and landlords disagree on how much credit a contested vacancy-fee ordinance deserves.
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Under New Owner, The Millhouse Café Reworks Its Menu for the First Time in Years
New owner Felix Amara unveiled the first significant menu overhaul at The Millhouse Café in more than a decade, testing how much a Vale Avenue institution can change without losing its longtime regulars.
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Regal Theatre Completes Multi-Year Restoration Project
The Regal Theatre reopened this weekend after a three-year, $8.2 million restoration that uncovered structural rot far beyond what organizers expected, restoring its original 640-seat capacity and welcoming Foundry Stage Company back to its home stage.