How can downtowns compete with suburban shopping centers and their acres of free parking? Provide the same. Just remove parking meters and make way for an influx of retailers and customers. At least that was the conventional wisdom for many years. But it hasn’t...
Movies Go Digital, Downtown Moves Forward
Next month, almost 91 years to the day after opening as Jamestown's grandest movie house, the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts will be showing its last film. Not its last movie, but its last movie on actual film, as it makes the conversion to the Digital Age. Over the...
Finding Room for Flexible Retail in Jamestown
The Downtown Jamestown Farmers Market represents a type of "flexible" retail space that JRC and others are trying to cultivate in Jamestown---spaces where entrepreneurs can test new products and services in a low-risk, low-overhead environment. You can read more about...
Christmas Parade Winners Announced, Crowd Favorite Voting Now Open
The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation (JRC) is proud to announce the winners from Jamestown’s Snowball Express Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration that was held on Friday, December 6 in downtown Jamestown. There were approximately 120 groups who participated,...
What’s your Riverwalk wish list?
Jamestown's Riverwalk has been expanding over the past few years, and plans are in the works to add new paths and amenities to make the city's Chadakoin riverfront a recreational destination for area residents and visitors. Click here to take a brief survey about how...
Grand Marshals and Parade Line Up Details
Jamestown Renaissance Corporation (JRC) will present “Jamestown’s Snowball Express” Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration, sponsored by The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown this Friday at 6:30pm. The parade will travel from Monroe Street east on Third...
The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown Co-sponsor Parade
The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation (JRC) has announced that The Resource Center and Lutheran Jamestown will come together as co-sponsors of “Jamestown’s Snowball Express” Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration on December 6. “The Resource Center has been an...
JRC Announces 2013 Christmas Parade Theme
The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation is proud to announce the 2013 Christmas Parade and Holiday Celebration theme: “Jamestown’s Snowball Express.” “The event’s planning committee has decided on this universal theme to connect the story of The Polar Express...
Jamestown’s Farmers Market: Planning for the Future
This year's Downtown Jamestown Farmers Market (Fridays from 10am to 3pm through October) has done very well at its Foundry Alley location next to the Renaissance Center--so well that there's no more room to fit interested vendors. As the 2013 market heads into its...
Upclose Update: Lucy Town Half Marathon Gears Up
Summer is coming to an end as the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, but that does not mean that there is less activity happening in and around Jamestown. This week's Upclose Update is full of information about great events taking place throughout the fall...