Debbie Buckley, the city’s Renaissance Coordinator, sent me an email today for this great event: This coming Saturday, December 13, 2008, Fort Thomas is honored to be part of a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Veterans Nursing Home in Fort Thomas at 1:00. This will be the first of it’s kind and everyone is looking […]
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Officers’ Quarters in Tower Park
We appear to be 1 hurdle away from new housing in Tower Park. The long sought after sale of the 14 officer homes in Tower Park (many with views of the Ohio River) is only 1 signature away from being the property of the City of Fort Thomas. It has been nearly 5 years since […]
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More on the 2015 Greenway Plan
I mentioned in my post this weekend about the Vision 2015 Greenways plan (link here). Human Nature, a company focused on designing public spaces is a key component of this plan and you can actually view some of the plans and proposals on this site. If you view a larger view of the second map […]
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Vision 2015’s Regional Park Network
Vision 2015 shed some additional attention on the parks component of the Vision 2015 plan this week including an open house to solicit input and share the vision along the Licking watershed. The regional parks plan is an important component of Northern Kentucky’s development and the idea of making the under-utilized Licking River in this […]
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Recent Events
Since it has been a couple of weeks since my last post I thought I would bring you a collection of small stories that have been reported elsewhere with a little commentary: Status update on the Midway – this was a recent article in the Enquirer from a recent Council meeting. The story covers other […]
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Arts Grant Opportunity?
News was released today about the winners of the Kentucky Arts Partnership Grant. There were only a handful of winners from Northern Kentucky and only one based in Campbell county. This is another grant opportunity for those involved in the arts in Fort Thomas to gain additional funding. A quick look at the Kentucky Arts […]
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Downtown Revitalization
I recently came across an article by ‘Solutions for America’ on downtown revitalization. I am not fully aware of all the politics of this organization but they make some great points in the article about revitalization. While most of the article is focused on big city downtowns many of the points that are made are […]
