Logan Town Center's Blog

Walkability

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:05:37 +0000

The important link between walkability and sustainable communities was the subject of a passionate and researched presentation given by Logan native and LHS alum Aaron Ogle in July at the Sandstone. All heads were nodding in agreement with his comments. Aaron is a software designer in Philadelphia. As lead programmer, he led a team that has developed www.walkshed.org.

If you missed Aaron’s presentation, you can view the slide-show that outlined and illustrated his presentation, and get an idea of some great strides we can all take in our very own communities. (The slide-show is a large (6mb) pdf file.)

Little Cities of Black Diamonds Exhibit

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:41:28 +0000

Logan Town Center is now hosting an exhibit Diamonds in the Rough, the Legacy of Coal Mining in Ohio’s Hill Country displayed in the windows of the former Elberfeld Department Store, 79 West Main street. This is the first of two installments; the second will be displayed later this summer.
For more details on this exhibit and the history of these neighboring communities, see the article that appeared in this Saturday’s (July 3rd) Logan Daily News.

Revitalizing Logan’s historic downtown bearing fruit for Hocking Hills community

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:00:46 +0000

A feature story in Sunday’s (April 25th) Columbus Dispatch tells of signs of progress by many individuals and groups in the continuing process of revitalizing our small city. I left out of the headline for this post the phrase “slow process” and the word “finally” from the article’s headline, but reluctantly I have to admit they are part of the story.

The story is posted on the paper’s web site: www.dispatch.com.

Pocket Parks

Realtor — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:03:53 +0000

A few LTC members got our engines revved up on a recent road trip to Zanesville. Thanks to Dana Matz, their Downtown Manager & Carol Humphreys, the MCB Incubator Director, for generously sharing their time and expertise. The photo is a wonderful Pocket Park created by a downtown property owner to remove a blighted eyesore behind the first building she purchased and renovated.

Comment on the Report of the DART Visit

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:54:46 +0000

You can read the report from Heritage Ohio’s Downtown Assessment Resource Team (DART) written after their visit to Logan in March. Then you can comment on the report in general here, or you can make more focused comments on the 200 observations and recommendations contained in the report by going to the special blog posts for these items.

To access the report and the special blog go to logantowncenter.com/dartrpt1.html.

Thank you for contributing your thoughts.

Historic District proposed to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:42:05 +0000

The first week of June, Logan Town Center’s historic preservation consultants submitted an application for listing a Logan Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

The application is described at <logantowncenter.com/design/NRHistDistrictMain.html>.
More detailed maps are available at <logantowncenter.com/design/NRHistDistrictMaps.html>.
Descriptions of what a National Register Historic District is and what the implications are for us as individuals and as a community can be found at <logantowncenter.com/design/NRHistDistrictFAQs.html>.

I hope you will look at this material and then come back to this blog and post your comments, questions or corrections.

Thank you.

Bob Wasson

Welcome to the Logan Town Center Blog

Realtor — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:05:12 +0000

Almost everyday I hear another great idea for downtown Logan’s revival as a fun place to live, work and play. Rather than sharing these suggestions simply by word of mouth, we invite you to post your ideas, suggestions, compliments, comments or historical recollections here on the Blog. Thank you to Bob and Nick for creating this site.

To make a suggestion or comment, select the link below that indicates the number of “Comments.”