7th avenue

In definance of the latest Courthouse/local media stereotype of neighborhood advocates as some kind of elite group that opposes developers at every turn, I was out doing yard work and picking up some neighborhood litter rather than making my way to tonight's council meeting to oppose developers just to make them mad.

The Metro Planner vested with review of R.C. Hazzard's Ardelia Park concept at the corner of 7th Avenue, North and Garfield Street expressed concerns about the design, which Mr. Hazzard made clear he will not change at an April Salemtown community meeting.

The Metro Planner vested with review of R.C. Hazzard's Ardelia Park concept at the corner of 7th Avenue, North and Garfield Street expresses concerns about the design, which Mr. Hazzard has made clear he will not change at an April Salemtown community meeting.

Last week in emails exchanged between the Metro Planning and the owner of the proposed Ardelia Park development at the corner of 7th Avenue, North and Garfield Street, a planning official expressed disappointment that the owner was "not willing to work" with planning officials on a re-design of Ar

Erica Gilmore is introducing the ordinance tonight to approve SP zoning for "Ardelia Park," a cluster of 5 identical single-family homes built across two properties at the corner of 7th Avenue, North and Garfield Street.

I'm posting at midnight you you probably know that we went home early tonight. Blame it on my sister's 12.6 mile run this morning. Or blame it on me laying on the couch watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hooo..that makes ya sleepy.

Without further bull[bleep], here are the highlights of tonight.

We started at the Oak Bar in the Hermitage Hotel.

I attended this morning's community meeting called by Council Member Erica Gilmore for Salemtown residents to look and and comment on developer R.C. Hazzard's concept that he calls "Ardelia Park," which is planned for the southwest corner at the intersection of 7th Avenue, North and Garfield Street.

A local pastor in Salemtown called me tonight to say that the owner of a small single-serve beer market at the corner of 7th Avenue, North and Garfield Street was shot at the store tonight. He told me that victim was in bad shape. Initial reports indicate that it happened between 6:30 and 7:20. No word on whether a suspect is in custody. I'll post more details as they come in.

A former resident of the Union Rescue Mission who has a buglary and cocaine-related rap sheet has been linked through a DNA-match of blood left at the Metro Office Building broken into on Christmas Eve. The suspect is still on the lam.

The Union Rescue Mission has a women's facility on Rosa Parks Boulevard near Garfield Street, so we have a number of homeless individuals who hang around the intersection of 7th Avenue North and Garfield and over on Rosa Parks near I-65. The 45-year-old