Potters gALLErY has been bringing color and vibrancy to downtown Jamestown for five years by incorporating art from talented local students into the urban landscape. And for the fifth straight year, the gallery is set to expand -- but the JRC needs your assistance. A...
Small garden signs will be popping up across Jamestown this month. You’ll see them nestled in flower beds and planter boxes from Hotchkiss Street to Hallock Street and from West Virginia Boulevard to West 18th Street. The signs will be distributed as part of the GROW...
The City of Jamestown will be hosting a Complete Streets Policy Implementation presentation on Monday July 7th from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the Lillian V. Ney Renaissance Center located at 119 West Third Street. Complete Streets are road systems that provide...
One of the hallmarks of successful downtowns is that they are destinations for great food and have lots of fun places to eat. Think of any downtown that you enjoy visiting and there’s a good chance that a restaurant, public market, or street-side food vendor...
Great streets feel good. Walk or drive down the stretch of Third Street between Hallock and Hall in Jamestown now that the oak trees are in full leaf and try not to be inspired. It’s hard. The soaring trees, the interesting buildings, and the view of downtown on the...
Landscaping, porch repairs, painting, sidewalk replacement and many other projects will soon be underway in Jamestown’s neighborhoods as part of the Jamestown Renaissance Corporation’s fourth annual Renaissance Block Challenge. Seven clusters of neighbors are...
Here are the cleaning assignments organized by group for Hands On Jamestown. If you have any questions you can ask someone at the registration table tomorrow morning. Over 700 volunteers have signed up! See you tomorrow....
Click here to register for Hands-On Jamestown It’s a vicious cycle that begins small. Litter begets litter. Then graffiti appears. And before long, apathy and despair are knocking at the door. But the reverse cycle also starts out small. A sidewalk is swept. A...
Over one million buildings, sites and objects in the United States are on the National Register of Historic Places, the Department of the Interior’s official inventory of historic resources. Among these, over 90 percent are located in one of 13,000...
As Jamestown makes the jarring transition from polar vortex to vernal equinox, subtle signs of spring are popping up around the city. Some of these signs remind us how green and colorful Jamestown will be in just a month or two, and about the close connection between...