Downtown Eugene

I'm very supportive of a year-round, indoor farmers market in Eugene. Like our outdoor farmers market today, vendors there will sell al...

Another giant out-of-town development conglomerate -- funded by the financial sector's collusion with the Federal govern...

Everyone appreciates the effort and care put into downtown by its new workers, commercial and non-profit, during the recent boom. Some ...

One of Eugene's great political moments was the humbling of the City's destructive downtown Urban Renewal fund in 2007 (see previ...

The crowd gathered Friday, March 4 to celebrate the beginning of LCC's project to fill the Sear's pit on 10th avenue. It's all v...

In every old city there's a street which the population pours onto, each evening and holiday, dressed their best, with a wide range of s...

With the fading out of The Tango Center sometime this summer, there's been lots of talk about the past, present and future of social pa...

Lord Leebrick Theatre just bought the building that houses The Tango Center . In a press conference, Lord Leebrick's artistic director ...

The Tango Center in downtown Eugene is a unique institution with a perhaps not so unique set of problems. The owners of the building have n...

I'd like to suggest a city-wide initiative for Eugene, Oregon . In these tough times, citizens and supporters can give our local economy...

For the past few months, The Tango Center , at 194 West Broadway, has hosted a diverse market-dance-art-cafe event known as The Weekday Mark...

First thought: It's quite sad that the Eugene Celebration charges $12 for the public to participate. It should be an open event ... the...

When we launched our non-profit public dance-hall, The Tango Center , one of our main incentives, was to provide places downtown where peopl...

When nurturing community, we generally try to: 1. preserve and enhance what we have 2. encourage community-based initiatives to solve commun...

A park, 1/4 - 1/2 of a block in size, across from the library, is a capital idea. But I've heard worries about its becoming a "prob...

Portland's auditor recently issued a finding, that in Portland, areas with Urban Renewal funding have higher property values than areas ...

The organized opposition to the City's urban renewal boondoggle, was certainly fighting Urban Renewal in general. UR is a corrupt mechan...

An Urban planner, without Urban Renewal funds, might very well ask: "Ok, the citizens rejected large-scale new development and redevelo...

By about a 2-to-1 margin, the citizens of Eugene voted against funding the City of Eugene's Urban Renewal disaster. There is no faith in...

This is a conceptual drawing from KWG, the developer that has offered to hire themselves to the City of Eugene, to destroy the West Broadway...