by Heather Brandon | Jan 30, 2007 | Urban Compass
John McCloskey of the blog More, Better Lies took a bus trip from New York City to Springfield recently. In a post describing the experience, he says that he’s getting good at traveling by bus, which he describes as successfully projecting "enough bad vibes...
by Heather Brandon | Jan 30, 2007 | Urban Compass
"The nice thing is that this is a real project that's going to happen," Bea O'Quinn Dewberry quoted developer Peter Pappas of East Longmeadow in the January 19 Republican. Indeed, it is a nice thing. Is it really going to happen? "We have...
by Heather Brandon | Jan 31, 2007 | Urban Compass
While state bureaucrats wonder whether to pressure smart growth from the state level, earlier this month the region’s first annual Smart Growth Awards were presented. Awards were offered in a number of categories to a variety of projects on behalf of the Pioneer...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 1, 2007 | Urban Compass
Do you think Springfield’s gotten so far out of the woods that it’s worthy of teaching a lesson or two? The Pioneer Institute does. On Thursday, February 8, the Boston think tank is hosting "Revitalizing Middle Cities: New Ideas and Policy Tools to...
by Heather Brandon | Feb 2, 2007 | Urban Compass
Republican photog Mike Gordon snaps a shot of Peter Pappas and Michael Spagnoli at the Hall of Fame yesterday. At an announcement yesterday morning at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, developers Peter Pappas and Michael Spagnoli rolled out their plan for...
