Little Rock artist Joel Boyd has added another mural to downtown Little Rock, this time in a parking lot at the Bowen Law School.
Gabe Holmstrom
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Main Street Food Truck Festival will return in September, but not on Main Street
Downtown Little Rock’s annual food truck festival, which has been known as the Main Street Food Truck Festival since its debut in 2011, is moving from Main Street to Capitol Avenue and being rebranded as the Downtown Food Truck Festival.
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Downtown Little Rock master plan calls for special tax district, focus on river
The downtown master plan proposes using a tax increment finance district to fund some big ideas downtown, but the proposal is likely to be controversial. The city board is expected to consider the plan this summer. Residents can offer comments until June 6.
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Downtown Partnership’s boss provides details on his pay and more particulars of an expanded ‘ambassador’ program
Sales tax increase would pay 11 security guards to patrol downtown, according to proposed budget.
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The Root Cafe celebrates 10th birthday
The Root will reopen its indoor dining room on Friday, July 9.
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Downtown Partnership calls on governor for non-discrimination order
The Downtown Little Rock Partnership has called on Gov. Asa Hutchinson to issue an executive order “protecting state employees against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the work place.”
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Fences, neighbors and the historic Quapaw Quarter
A Tweet from Gabe Holmstrom last night alerts me to the final chapter of a long-running battle over fences in the historic Governor’s Mansion neighborhood of the Quapaw Quarter.
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The Quapaw Quarter fence height rule at issue again
They’re not through fighting over fences in the Quapaw Quarter. You’ll remember that unhappy fence builders very nearly destroyed the Capitol Zoning District Commission in the 2013 legislative session because House Speaker Davy Carter’s right-hand man, Gabe Holmstrom, got PO’ed about the commission’s 40-inch limit on frontyard fences.
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Capitol Zoning Commission rejects change in fence height rule
Ah, the great fence debate. Remember it?
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UPDATE: Bill would abolish Capitol Zoning District Commission
This is an outrage and if it happens be sure to put blame on House Speaker Davy Carter’s chief of staff Gabe Holmstrom along with reactionary Republican Rep. Nate Bell of Mena.