The Dispatch wrote
Downtown panel wants details on RiverSouth
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
BY ROBERT VITALE
City officials have spoken for five years of grand plans for the south end of Downtown, an area that would include a new county courts building, a spruced-up riverfront, classier streetscapes and more.
Downtown Commission Chairman Harrison Smith said the panel has been asked to approve building designs but isn’t quite sure when the city plans to tackle its overall plan for RiverSouth, which includes converting Front Street to two-way traffic, replacing old sewer lines and installing better-looking curbs and crosswalks.
Franklin County has broken ground for its new courts building at one end — the commission will review design changes next week — and the Lazarus store has been renovated at the other end for state offices and other tenants.
The Downtown Commission yesterday approved the demolition of a vacant Lazarus parking garage at Front and Rich streets. Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corp. will build a replacement there that will be owned by the city.
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