August 21 Headlines
August 21st, 2007
Big box retailers sneaking into Five Points through the back door
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Big box retailers sneaking into Five Points through the back door
Atlanta developer Hendon Properties and their local agent, Travis Butler (a member of a Columbia city planning board), has so far kept the media, Columbia city council and Five Points merchants in the dark about their plans to develop a three-acre lot on Harden Street. The company plans to purchase the Bazaar shopping complex and Bob Andrews motors but has declined to comment on what plans it has for the property. The company’s Web site lists “big box” retailers like Best Buy, The Gap, Borders and Old Navy as some of its “major clients” in past development projects.
Yesterday City Council held a public meeting to discuss the Five Points “Future Five” plan, originally drafted by the Quackenbush architectural firm and the Five Points Association (FPA) merchants group. The FPA has stated that it hopes to develop Five Points while retaining the uniqueness of the shopping village and the “locally-owned” ethos of the area. Many Five Points merchants used the meeting to express concerns about Hendon and Doug Quackenbush, of the architectural firm, asked city council to quickly pass zoning laws that would guide development of the area.
L.A. Times compares Google to Osama Bin Laden
In a scathing opinion piece the L.A. Times has charged that the “Google News” service is a greater threat to newspaper publishers’ livelihoods than Osama Bin Laden. The editorial particularly mentions a new feature on the Google site that will allow rebuttal comments by the subjects featured in the news stories.
Women prefer pink, university study shows
Researchers at Newcastle University in England released the results of a study this week which may prove that women do indeed prefer pink. The researchers believe this preference for pink may have an evolutionary link as the color is often associated with ripe fruit and healthy faces. Men, they found, will pretty much just take any old color.
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