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Council Endorses San Antonio’s Main Plaza Makeover

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 12, 2006 | Add Comment

The City Council supported a plan for the revitalization of the historic Main Square in San Antonio.  Project for Public Spaces held a public workshop in March, eliciting such ideas from community members as “creating cafe-like environments, pedestrian-oriented spaces and opportunities for vending or sitting and people watching.”

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Harvard Takes First Allston Steps, Refines Master Plans

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 9, 2006 | 1 Comment

Harvard University’s plans for an extension of its campus in Allston took more definite shape with the selection of a site and architect for a half-million-square-foot science complex, as well as the announcement of plans for new arts and culture facilities.

PPS facilitated a Placemaking workshop with 50 Allston residents, who discussed ways the surrounding [...]

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Fred Kent Voices Concerns over Proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park

By ksalay@pps.org on Jun 8, 2006 | 4 Comments

Concerned with the “suburbanization of the city,” Fred Kent is concerned that the new park will become a private backyard for several proposed 20- to 30-story luxury apartment towers.  “Towers in parks is an old idea that was tried and failed in the 50s and 60s, and now it’s coming back, unfortunately,” said Fred.

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Project for Public Spaces Announces Winners of Eleven Grants to Develop Farmers Market State/Regional Associations Throughout North America

By jday@pps.org on Jun 1, 2006 | 2 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact – Chris Heitmann or Shin-pei Tsay, Project for Public Spaces 212-620-5660

May 30, 2006

Grants totaling $900,000 will increase the capacity of farmers markets to expand and enhance their operations

NEW YORK, NY – Eleven state and regional associations founded to advance farmers markets will capitalize on the massive growth [...]

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PPS Travels to the Republic of Georgia

By ksalay@pps.org on May 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Phil Myrick and David O’Neil returned to the Republic of Georgia to work on market projects in two small towns, Akhaltsikhe and Ninotsminda.

Phil and David assisted community members in Ninotsminda with creating a new central market. The site of the new market is now empty, but the market is planned to [...]

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PPS Staff Update: Former COO Now a Dairy Farmer in Armenia

By ksalay@pps.org on May 26, 2006 | Add Comment

Aram Khachadurian, who was PPS’s COO from 2000-2001, is now living in Armenia, running a cattle farm and making cheese!  Phil Myrick and David O’Neil recently visited the farm, which is just an hour’s drive from Ninotsminda, a village in Georgia where they were working on a PPS market project.

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Fayetteville Market (AR) Reaches Out to Hispanic Community

By stsay@pps.org on May 23, 2006 | 2 Comments

“We want our market to be for everyone in the community,” says Janet Bachman, a market vendor.

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NYC Streets Renaissance Exhibit Moves to Times Square

By ksalay@pps.org on May 19, 2006 | Add Comment

The NYC Streets Renaissance exhibit, Livable Streets: A New Vision for New York, has moved from the Municipal Arts Society to the lobby of 4 Times Square, the Conde Nast Building.

The exhibit will focus on a vision for Broadway as a grand boulevard containing more than 20 unique destinations, with Times Square as the [...]

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Profile from South Side Farmers’ Market, Madison, WI

By stsay@pps.org on May 19, 2006 | 1 Comment

Who is Robert Pierce, manager of the South Side Farmers’ Market, one of PPS’s public markets grantees?

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Blueprint Developed for Better Delaney Park Strip

By kziegenfuss@pps.org on May 15, 2006 | Add Comment

Plans for short term improvements and a larger vision for Delaney Park Strip in Anchorage, Alaska are underway.

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Public Markets Conference from the eyes of Lexington Farmers’ Market

By stsay@pps.org on May 12, 2006 | Add Comment

“I was impressed by the incredible amount of innovation, creativity and energy surrounding farmers’ markets,” writes Sonia DeMarta.

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Public Market Potential in Davenport, IA

By stsay@pps.org on May 10, 2006 | Add Comment

Davenport keeps on working towards the potential of its public market.

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