Tag Archives: Harrison Square
Harrison Square financing: A primer

Harrison Square financing: A primer

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.

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Will Harrison Square hate pedestrians?

Will Harrison Square hate pedestrians?

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) [...]

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Harrison Square news

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 [...]

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4 reasons to not bust a gaping hole into a historic theater

4 reasons to not bust a gaping hole into a historic theater

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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