If one wants to look for a model for Clinton to follow in pursuing economic development, one need only look 50 miles north to Dubuque. Dubuque, which in 1990 had 46,000 people employed in the city by the end of 2009 had grown that to 54,500. Moody’s ranked Dubuque the 22nd city in the...
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As a downtown Clinton business owner I am a member of the Clinton Downtown PartnershipM. The Downtown Partnership recently conducted a survey of residents who live downtown. Surveys were distributed to residents of the following properties: Van Allen Building Armstrong Building Howes Building Lafayette Building Tucker Building Park Towers 90 surveys were distributed and...
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There’s a new web site called, Walk Score that gives your neighborhood a “walkability index” based on how many shops, restauants and other amenities are within walking distance. Kind of neat. My neighborhood scores 57 out of 100, Somewhat Walkable. There are some questions regarding the quality of the mapping data they are relying...
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The idea here at re-burbia is to repair the poor use of space by strip-mall and fast-food architecture with infill buildings and repurpose the original building. We were discussing in a meeting last week the fact that Clinton (like many small towns) after encouraging so much non-downtown development along the highway now has much,...
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