Economy Section :: Page 42

• GMHA gardens on chopping block

  By Megan BachmanJune 21, 2012

  

  Patricia High is dejected because she has until July 1 to transplant most of her beautiful garden at her Lawson Place unit, or the Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority will remove the plantings.

• Economic development plan OKd

  By Diane Chiddister

  A public/private economic sustainability outreach team of local leaders for the purpose of business retention, expansion and attraction.

• Charitable funding shift to affect local nonprofits

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 20, 2012

  Over the past 10 years, the Morgan Family Foundation has quietly donated substantial sums of money to local nonprofits. But last week the foundation notified past grant recipients that, at least for the next several years, it is changing direction.

• Ground broken for first stage of CBE construction

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 14, 2012

  

  At a recent ceremony at the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, ground was broken for the first phase of the center’s construction, the creation of the intersection of Dayton-Yellow Springs Road with the CBE’s internal roadway, Gateway Drive.

• Solar goes dark, for now

  By Megan Bachman

  A field of solar panels won’t soon sprout on the Glass Farm as planned, though a local solar farm is still possible.

• Couples purchase Xenia Ave. property

  By Megan BachmanJune 10, 2012

  

  Two local couples — Asanda Imports owners Lee Kibblewhite and Molly Lunde and Brendan Comerford and Christy Lewis — recently purchased the property at 228 Xenia Avenue, currently home to Sam & Eddie’s Open Books and Asanda Imports.

• Food carts allowed, but with rules

  By Sarah SiffJune 7, 2012

  

  The “French fry truck” will no longer enjoy prime frontage along Xenia Avenue downtown. It was ordered not to “obstruct access or sightlines” to other businesses.

• Senior housing off, for now

  By Megan BachmanMay 10, 2012

  An effort to build affordable senior housing on the Barr property downtown was thwarted last month when the project was denied its request for 2012 federal tax credits. However, project organizers consider the set-back only a delay, as they plan to re-apply in 2013.

• Survive it, from the A-bomb to zombies

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Are you ready for the big one? Dorothy’s tornado? The earthquake that finally hits the Midwest fault? Springs Survival is your next stop — don’t make it be your last.

• Council eyes economic plan

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 19, 2012

  Village Council members at their April 2 meeting heard a review of the recent Economic Sustainability Plan by several members of the Village Economic Sustainability Commission.