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Community Links May 2011 On May 14th The Key Alliance is sponsoring a Run for the Homeless. The race will start and end at the Country Music Hall of Fame and start at 8am. There will be road closures so follow this link to their website to review the course: http://www.thekeyalliance.org/images/pdf/course_certification.pdf. Volunteers are needed to help with the race. Please contact Ben Morton at j.ben.morton@gmail.com or 615-390-2769 if you are interested. (Email is preferred so Ben can get back to you with full details.) January 2011 URA Board Members featured in The Tennessean. November 2010 Holiday Party The URA will host our annual Holiday Party at the new Downtown Puckett's Grocery & Restaurant ( also a great bar and music venue). Join us on Monday, December 20th for complimentary appetizer. Details will follow! Mayor Karl Dean addressed the URA membership during our November business meeting held at the Nashville City Club. The Mayor discussed growth in neigborhood to include the Music City Center, the Riverfront Development project, the new Omni Hotel while addressing safety issues in the Downtown area. We would like to extend a special Thank You to the Mayor and Billy Fields and others in the Mayor's office who worked around OUR schedule to make this meeting possible. Also, we would like to thank the Nashville City Club for hosting this event. Please check our MAP Discounts page for a special offer from the Nashville City Club. September 2010 The Key Alliance promotes Housing First, a best-practice model that offers permanent housing coupled with intense case management to the most vulnerable homeless individuals in our community. Dear Music City Center Stakeholder: We are excited to let you know our new website launched Friday offering users easy access to high resolution renderings of the building’s design, links to the real-time construction web camera, Facebook page, and Twitter accounts, construction facts, and current financial reports.The site, http://www.nashvillemusiccitycenter.com was designed in collaboration with Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County’s Information Technology Web team. “We’ve worked to make sure any and all information about this project is completely transparent,” said Larry Atema, senior project and development manager for the Convention Center Authority. “We are really proud to be able to share information with the local community about important facets of the project in addition to construction, such as our workforce development program and all the area businesses working on the job.” The Urban Residents Association to be awarded the 2010 "LIVE" Award On October 21st. The board of the URA was notified Monday, September 20th, that our organization will receive the "LIVE" award at the Nashville Downtown Partnership Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon to be held Thursday, October 21st at The Renaissance Nashville Hotel. The Luncheon and Award ceremony is from 12 Noon to 1:30 pm and will be held in the Grand Ballroom. Reservations are required and tickets are available for $40 per person or $375 for a table of 10. The reservation deadline is October 14th, 2010 so make your plans now! Reservations can be made through the Nashville Downtown Partnership directly; contact Erin Perry at 615.743.3090 or by email at eperry@nashvilledowntown.com. We are truly honored by this award and would like to share this moment with each of you, our members and neighbors. September URA Business Meeting Links New Downtown Merchants Crissy Cassetty, Retail Recruiter for the Nashville Downtown Partnership, provide information on new businesses opening in our neighborhood. Puckett's Grocery provided BBQ Sliders, Ribs, and an amazing Spinach dip while informing our members and guests on their new facility, hours and menu. Red's Classic Barbershop gave a presentation on their services. And, we heard from a representative of the new wine store opening soon at the base of the L&C tower! Crissy also shared information on Margaritaville and Luau Louie's that will open in the next few weeks. You can find these new businesses and their links on our MAP Discounts page. A few have not opened yet, so check the MAP page often. These new businesses are happy to be in our neighborhood and will offer special discounts to us once their doors open. The Key Alliance Clifton Harris, Executive Director, and his team gave a presentation on their efforts to battle homelessness in our city. The Key Alliance is the 501(c)3 nonprofit fundraising arm of the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission. The Key Alliance is reshaping Nashville's approach to solving homelessness by generating resources and collaborating with service providers, corporations, foundations, community leaders, faith-based organizations, and government entities to provide housing, case management and prevention services to individuals and families struggling with homelessness in our community Several of our attendees requested contact information for this group. Below is the information they provided. Their Website: www.thekeyalliance.org Nashville's Award-Winning Tanning Salon, Urban Sun, Aids Local Nashville Bike Share is a free service provided to all residents and students in Nashville, 18 and older. It is a pilot program that brings the first free-public bike rental program to the state of Tennessee. August 2010 August Mixer- Thank you to Mayor Dean and the 70+ URA members who joined us for our August Mixer at the Hotel Indigo, Phi Bar. URA President Addresses Homeless Concerns in Downtown, Nashville. The Tennessean, August 12, 2010 July 2010 Guest Speaker Links from our July URA Meeting... Steve Turner for TN House Rep steventurnertn.com Nashville Riverfront Project nashvilleriverfront.org Nashville's Street Paper nashvillecontributor.org Overview of Central efforts to date Church Street Park area on Quality of Life concerns from Commander Damian Huggins: -I have directed 7 day coverage over the area of Church St., Capital St. area until further notice from dawn until Church St. Park closing and a C detail directive for continuous checks throughout the night for trespassing issues until A detail comes on. Crime Mapping Website The Metro Police Dept has a new crime mapping website available for you to use. On this site you can receive email alerts of any new crimes in your area. The data is updated daily and you have the ability to pick specific date ranges you want to look at. Here is the link that will take you directly to the site. June 2010 Friends of Bicentennial Mall State Park are hosting the Nashville Symphony at the park on Wednesday, June 30th, at 8pm. When the weather begins to get warm the Nashville Symphony is ready to get in the community and play outside, playing well-known repertoire that all ages and listeners are sure to love. So gather a picnic dinner, come out and enjoy an evening of beautiful weather and great music.If you are interested in finding out more information about about the organization or the event please visit our website at bcmsp.org. Riverfront Development Project- Please join us for a community meeting to discuss phase I of the renovation of the Nashville Bridge Company ("Nabrico") building which sits beside the imminent East bank adventure park. At this meeting, MDHA will outline its objectives in this next riverfront development project, and the project architect will present preliminary design concepts for the renovation. Public input and comments will be solicited. Meeting Details: Thursday, June 24th at 6PM East Park Community Center, 700 Woodland Street. URA Mixer Updates - Please visit our Upcoming Events page for an updated list of mixer locations. June URA Mixer- Monday June 21 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Sambuca (The Gulch), May 2010 Hooters Downtown Nashville reopens, after extensive remodeling and upgrades, on Monday May 24th 2010. Stop in and enjoy a free appetizer with your current MAP card! New Merchant Access Program (MAP) cards are available. Check your MAP card and make sure it's still valid. Our MAP partners will not accept expired cards. New cards are sold at all URA events and can be ordered on line. Or, you can contact our Treasurer directly nicole@nashvilleura.org . The list of MAP members, their discounts and web links will be updated upon registration. Please check the MAP Discounts page often as we continue to add downtown merchants to the program. Congressman Jim Cooper addressed the URA membership during our May Business Meeting. Many of you requested a copy of his presentation on the Nashville Flood. His staff will provide this and we will post a link. Please check this page again. WeCar - The Nashville Downtown Partnership and Enterprise Rent-A-Car have partnered to offer WeCar - downtown Nashville’s first carsharing program! Be one of the first 100 to join WeCar and receive a $50 driving credit! Membership includes fuel, maintenance, basic sprotection insurance and 24-hour access to the WeCar fleet in Nashville. Click on this link to learn more about the program or to sign up: http://www.parkitdowntown.com/getting_around/WeCar/. Neighborhood Pet Reminder - A reminder to please clean up after your pooch! The Nashville Downtown Partnership cleaning ambassadors have found that the worst areas are in Printers' Alley next door to The Exchange Building and Church Street Lofts. Please bring bags to clean up after your dogs and spread the word to your neighbors! April 2010 Nashville MTA Hourly Service to Nashville International Airport The Nashville Music City Circuit Shuttle Service for Downtown and The Gulch The Wine Loft, Host of the April URA Mixer. Monday April 19th Live It Up, Downtown Home Tour. Presented by Nashville Downtown Partnership. Sunday April 18th The City Lights Tour, The Gulch. Presented by Nashville Downtown Partnership. Thursday April 15th The Friends of Church Street Park Present, Songwriters in the Park. Friday Nights in April URA President Featured in April issue of Out & About Magazine, Nashville March 2010 Nashville Music City Center Updates Metro Water Service Water Main Replacement Updates
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