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Moving Beyond the Magic Bullet

Moving Beyond the Magic Bullet

[Editor's Note: This editorial is a follow-up discussion to a story published on March 2, 2014, about the National Comedy Center.] Cities frequently fall prey to the seduction of the "magic bullet," the project that promises to solve a slew of civic ailments in one...

In Upstate Cities, Recognizing the Power of Peers

In Upstate Cities, Recognizing the Power of Peers

In 2012, a group of citizens in Oswego, NY, decided to do something about the disinvestment that was steadily eroding stable neighborhoods in that city of 18,000 on Lake Ontario. As they explored their options, they came across some information about Jamestown. They...

Time to Re-think Free Parking

Time to Re-think Free Parking

How can downtowns compete with suburban shopping centers and their acres of free parking? Provide the same. Just remove parking meters and make way for an influx of retailers and customers. At least that was the conventional wisdom for many years. But it hasn’t...

Movies Go Digital, Downtown Moves Forward

Movies Go Digital, Downtown Moves Forward

Next month, almost 91 years to the day after opening as Jamestown's grandest movie house, the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts will be showing its last film. Not its last movie, but its last movie on actual film, as it makes the conversion to the Digital Age. Over the...

Finding Room for Flexible Retail in Jamestown

Finding Room for Flexible Retail in Jamestown

The Downtown Jamestown Farmers Market represents a type of "flexible" retail space that JRC and others are trying to cultivate in Jamestown---spaces where entrepreneurs can test new products and services in a low-risk, low-overhead environment. You can read more about...

Christmas Parade Winners Announced, Crowd Favorite Voting Now Open

Christmas Parade Winners Announced, Crowd Favorite Voting Now Open

The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation (JRC) is proud to announce the winners from Jamestown’s Snowball Express Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration that was held on Friday, December 6 in downtown Jamestown. There were approximately 120 groups who participated,...

What’s your Riverwalk wish list?

What’s your Riverwalk wish list?

Jamestown's Riverwalk has been expanding over the past few years, and plans are in the works to add new paths and amenities to make the city's Chadakoin riverfront a recreational destination for area residents and visitors. Click here to take a brief survey about how...

Grand Marshals and Parade Line Up Details

Grand Marshals and Parade Line Up Details

  Jamestown Renaissance Corporation (JRC) will present “Jamestown’s Snowball Express” Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration, sponsored by The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown this Friday at 6:30pm.  The parade will travel from Monroe Street east on Third...

The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown Co-sponsor Parade

The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown Co-sponsor Parade

The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation (JRC) has announced that The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown will come together as co-sponsors of “Jamestown’s Snowball Express” Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration on December 6. “The Resource Center has been an...

Grand Marshals and Parade Line Up Details

JRC Announces 2013 Christmas Parade Theme

  The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation is proud to announce the 2013 Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration theme: “Jamestown’s Snowball Express.” “The event’s planning committee has decided on this universal theme to connect the story of The Polar Express...