Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The green spaces group will meet downtown on August 31.
Mayor Bob Buckhorn will be the featured speaker at this month's Green Artery meeting, to be hosted at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 by the Tampa Downtown Partnership at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, 111 W. Fortune Street. The Green Artery is devoted to linking Central Tampa's green spaces. The organization, formerly known as the Tampa Greenspaces Initiative, is a group dedicated to identifying and improving Central Tampa's urban trails—bike lanes and pedestrian paths—to connect green spaces such as parks. The organization was founded in 2010 and is based in Central Tampa's neighborhoods. The members are developing a map of walking and biking trails throughout the city. Each monthly meeting is held in a different neighborhood. This month's agenda …
Monday, July 25, 2011
Central Tampa residents are asked to help identify stops along a future trail system.
Residents are invited to help connect the green dots – the oak canopies, the neighborhood parks, the riverside oases – throughout Central Tampa by attending a meeting of the Green Artery at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Residents know best where the prettiest spots are in their communities, so their input is sorely needed, says Lena Young-Green, co-chairwoman of the grassroots coalition. “That’s the whole drive,” she says. “We’re not asking the city what’s important for us. We’re asking you.” The Green Artery has been working since 2010 to establish trails connecting green spaces through more than a dozen neighborhoods, from V.M. Ybor and the Channelside District to Seminole Heights and Sulphur Springs. The target area is bounded by the Hillsborough …
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
The green space project met Wednesday evening in Southeast Seminole Heights.
Leave the car at home. That's the message of The Green Artery, a Central Tampa neighborhood-based project created to identify and connect the green spaces in Central Tampa. The group met in Giddens Park Wednesday evening. “We want to encourage people to learn where these beautiful green spaces are,” said Myron Griffin, co-chair of the project. “We're looking at the bicyclist's point of view and the pedestrian's point of view.” The group is creating a map of green areas in Central Tampa, including bike lanes, parks and trails. The area covered includes all of greater Seminole Heights, Tampa Heights, Ybor City, Channelside and downtown Tampa — 19 neighborhoods in all. The project began in 2010 and meetings have been held in a different …
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Friday, January 14, 2011
City workers install a much-needed sidewalk on North 12th Street between East Sligh and Hanna avenues, a popular shortcut for motorists.
When Myron Griffin asked the city to install a sidewalk along North 12th Street, he thought of all the children, dog-walkers, joggers and neighbors he had watched scramble away from passing traffic over the years. “It’s a route people use to avoid Nebraska Avenue when the traffic backs up,” said Griffin, an East Clifton Street resident since 1985. “If you’re lucky, there’s no landscaping and you can run up in the grass.” Submitted in March 2010, Griffin’s request was answered last week as workers from the city’s Transportation Division started a half-mile stretch of concrete panels on the west side of the roadway. The new 5-foot-wide sidewalk will connect East Sligh and East Hanna avenues. Upon seeing the wet concrete, “I felt like carving…
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