Share So, how does the financing of Harrison Square fit together? Here’s how the city’s Web site shows the relationships: OK, that clears that up.
Will Harrison Square hate pedestrians?
by Jon Swerens on May 24, 2008, in Architecture, Downtown, Urbanism
Share Will the Harrison Square retail development in downtown Fort Wayne make pedestrians more or less welcome? And why would I ask the question, seeing as how there are so many pedestrians drawn on the architectural renderings? But there’s a potential problem with the above streetscape, and David Sucher’s Three Rules for urban design (PDF) [...]
Harrison Square news
by Jon Swerens on November 28, 2007, in Downtown, Harrison Square
Share I don’t know what reader of The Good City wouldn’t also be a reader of the Downtown Fort Wayne Baseball blog, but just in case … The guys at DFWB are all over the developments surrounding Harrison Square. I’m just going to point you to their blog and say, read up about the Harrison [...]
4 reasons to not bust a gaping hole into a historic theater
by Jon Swerens on September 20, 2007, in Downtown, Harrison Square, Where the sidewalk ends
Share Forget about building a downtown aquarium. Fort Wayne wants to build a suspended, over-the-street, glass-boxed, out-of-town-visitorium. In an effort to prevent convention goers from ever having to walk on an actual sidewalk, the folks building Harrison Square downtown want to carve a hole into the west side of the historic Embassy Theatre (actually, that [...]

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