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Destination: Downtown Farmers’ Market

Andy Cline — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:34:34 +0000

The new downtown farmers’ market is a great bicycling destination — located at St. Louis and Jefferson.

And the venture could really use your help. The weather has been awful hard on farmers this spring. So the amount of produce has been down. You can see that at the mall location, too.

Supporting the downtown location will help move forward a great idea: a permanent, enclosed market location. That would be so much better than a mall parking lot at the corner of two of Springfield’s largest traffic sewers. *cough – hack – wheeze*

UPDATE: I’m happy to report that there was a fairly good crowd at the market today.

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Media Centers

Andy Cline — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:49:12 +0000

Planetizen (one of my new favorite blogs) points to an interesting article about using library media centers to revitalize cities. While it isn’t housed in a fancy new building, we do have one of these media centers right in the heart of downtown Springfield on the Square — the Park Central Branch Library. Here’s a picture of my bicycle parked in front of it.

It’s just a storefront operation, but inside it’s full of media-center goodness — including a direct connection to the Coffee Ethic.

With the rennovations to the Square continuing, and plenty of bicycle parking, the Park Central Branch Library is an excellent bicycle destination downtown.

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