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Recycling and bulk trash are collected every other Friday. The next pickups will be:
- Friday June 2
- Friday June 16
- Friday June 30
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Monday June 26, 7 p.m.
The meeting will be held as a Zoom teleconference: Click here to login. - Historic Preservation
Commission
Wednesday May 31, 2023, 4 p.m., Plaza Level Conference Room, Melvin Municipal Building, 300 W. Washington Street.
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Category Archives: Spring Garden Street
This month at the HPC: Window changes and a new fence
The Historic Preservation Commission is scheduled to meet Wednesday, May 31, at 4 p.m. The agenda will include public hearings on two applications for certificates of appropriateness for College Hill properties at 706 Spring Garden Street and 924 Carr Street. … Continue reading
Airbnb now shows 8 short-term rental listings in College Hill, including 3 entire houses and a house with 3 apartments
Airbnb has listed short-term rentals in College Hill since at least 2014, but there may be more of them now than ever. This week, 919 Carr Street hosted its first Airbnb guests, bringing the total number of short-term rental units … Continue reading
Posted in Carr Street, McGee Street, Mendenhall Street, Rankin Place, Spring Garden Street, Tate Street, Walker Avenue
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College Hill historic-home prices continued to soar in 2022
2022 was a relatively quiet year for real estate in College Hill. Few historic homes went up for sale, continuing the trend of recent years. I counted 12 sales during the year; just three involved owner-occupied homes. Five houses (including … Continue reading
Bike lanes to be installed on Spring Garden Street this summer; GDOT says it will address trade-offs and negative impacts
News from Hannah Cockburn, City of Greensboro Director of Transportation: Thank you for the opportunity to engage with the neighborhood and property owners directly impacted by the Spring Garden resurfacing project as we evaluated extending bike lanes in the corridor. … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Fulton Street, Spring Garden Street, Tate Street, Traffic
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Tuesday fitness on the Greenway is back through September, plus Goat Yoga at MLK Drive next Saturday morning
Posted in Downtown Greenway, Spring Garden Street
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Spring Garden’s pop-up bike lanes to be taken down this week to accommodate sooner-than-expected repaving of the street
News from Hanna Cockburn, Greensboro director of transportation: The resurfacing contractor is making quick progress toward the resurfacing of Spring Garden Street and is beginning to raise water-service boxes and manholes to the finished elevation. To facilitate this work, the … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, City Government, Spring Garden Street, Traffic
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Online meeting on new bicycle lanes for Spring Garden Street between Tate and Fulton to be held Monday March 22, 6 p.m.
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News from Tate Street, McGee Street and around College Hill: Bitcoin ATMs are a coming thing, and the College Mart has one
For those interested in making their lives as complicated as possible, there’s now a Bitcoin ATM at the College Mart on Tate Street. People who have figured out cryptocurrency can use it to buy Bitcoins, Bitcoin Cash and something called … Continue reading
New president for the College Hill Neighborhood Association; longtime president James Keith leaving as business expands
Samantha Smith has been elected president of the College Hill Neighborhood Association, succeeding James Keith. James stepped down in December as he was selling his house on South Mendenhall Street. The association board voted unanimously to name Samantha president. Samantha … Continue reading