Greenville, S.C. official to speak at this week’s Rooster Booster

This week’s Rooster Booster Breakfast by the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce will feature a talk by Russell Stall, executive director of Greenville Forward in Greenville, S.C.
Stall has been involved in the redevelopment of Greenville’s downtown, was visited by Owensboro and Daviess County officials during their work on the downtown master plan, and a visit [...]

H-L’s Eblen: Downtown Lexington needs two-way streets

 In his column today, the Herald-Leader’s Tom Eblen argues for the conversion of several one-way streets in Lexington’s downtown to again accommodate two-way traffic. 
The change is being urged by downtown advocates who believe two-way streets slow down traffic and are generally more pedestrian-friendly than one-way thoroughfares. 
That would make Lexington’s downtown “a place people want to [...]

City of Owensboro reportedly to buy Executive Inn Rivermont hotel property

Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne will talk about the future of the Executive Inn Rivermont at a press conference on Friday in front of the closed downtown hotel. 
Several sources have confirmed that a purchase offer by the city has been accepted by Marshall Investments, the owners of the 17-acre property since June. 
Payne would not comment further [...]

EDC to announce new loan program for downtown

The Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp. will announce plans for a loan program to promote investment in downtown Owensboro this morning. 
EDC Chairman Darrell Higginbotham, who is Daviess County president of Independence Bank, will provide details about the new Downtown Owensboro Revitalization Loan Program at a 9 a.m. CST press conference at the EDC offices at [...]

An early look at the downtown Owensboro master plan

Members of the Owensboro community will gather at Kentucky Wesleyan College Saturday morning for the roll-out of the new downtown master plan being developed by Gateway Planning Group. 
The Fort Worth-based firm was in Owensboro in September for a week of design workshops to develop a plan for what the community wants in the city’s core. 
Saturday’s [...]

Reminder: We the People Town Meeting anniversary, downtown master plan presentation on Saturday

Coming this Saturday is the anniversary celebration of last year’s We the People Town Meeting, a gathering of several hundred Owensboro and Daviess County residents to help identify community priorities and projects. 
Part of the outgrowth of that meeting was the partnership of the city of Owensboro, Daviess Fiscal Court and members of the business community [...]

Owensboro mayoral candidates on downtown development

A local group formed last year to promote civic involvement has released a survey of the two candidates for mayor of Owensboro this year with their thoughts on downtown development. 
The group, Citizens for Good Government, was one of several subgroups formed in the wake of last year’s We the People Town Meeting that helped survey community [...]

Owensboro community gets another look at downtown master plan

The Gateway Planning Group presented the end result of their week of planning, listening and designing Friday at The RiverPark Center. 
The standing-room crowd in the Holbrook Balcony at the center saw a vision of downtown that included an outdoor events center adjacent to a revitalized waterfront district that Gateway President Scott Polikov described as a [...]

The language of downtown development

The Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp. has a piece on its blog explaining some of the terminology that many planners and designers use when discussing the future of downtowns. 
The piece does a good job of “decoding” the language that has permeated much of the talk this week in Owensboro as part of the downtown master [...]

Community weighs in on downtown Owensboro, to preview plan tonight

Owensboro and Daviess County residents will have a chance tonight to weigh in on the progress this week on designing a downtown master plan. 
Members of the Gateway Planning Group and their associates will offer a first draft of the plan at the RiverPark Center after nearly three days full of meetings with local interests and [...]