This event is an opportunity to meet artisans, contractors, and other professionals who specialize in the types of work needed to maintain the historic and aesthetic aspects of older homes — expertise that can be difficult to find.
The event is free and open to the public. Click on the invitation for more information.
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Reminder: The entire College Hill neighborhood is invited to take part in the August 1 official kickoff of the traffic improvement project and National Night Out celebration. Among the highlights of the event … on Mendenhall Street between Rankin Place and Carr Street … from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m:
Neighborhood volunteers and city staff began work last Friday on traffic-slowing installations that will be tested on Mendenhall Street. The changes will be evaluated for their effectiveness and community response before permanent changes are made. A second phase in the fall will target Spring Garden Street. The project is being funded by the College Hill Municipal Service District.
Carr Street gets a center line and decorative crosswalk at Mendenhall Street.
Volunteers work on the parklet on Mendenhall at Carr Street.
One lane of Walker coming up from Tate street has been blocked (and painted purple) to get cars away from the bushes that block the view of traffic approaching on Mendenhall from the north and to better manage Eastbound Walker traffic entering the intersection.
From Jeff Sovich, Neighborhood Planning Coordinator with the Greensboro Planning Department:
Over the next few months, College Hill is embarking on an exciting new project that aims to reclaim neighborhood streets and sidewalks as safe, inviting places for people! College Hill For Everyone will launch in August with a series of temporary demonstration projects that combine traffic-calming, signage, art, branding, history, and community events to enhance College Hill’s quality of life, historic character, and neighborhood identity. Phase 1 of CH4E will begin on Tuesday, August 1, in conjunction with National Night Out.
With your help, the College Hill Neighborhood Association will transform several intersections along Mendenhall Street (from Rankin Place to Walker Avenue), into people-friendly places. The National Night Out celebration will be on Mendenhall Street between Carr Street and Odell Place. For one night, this 150-foot section of Mendenhall will be closed to motor vehicles, so friends, neighbors, and visitors can stroll, chat, create, and play. Take a moment to visit the project webpage, where you can:
Be a part of this innovative project that will re-envision the way streets and public spaces can serve people and make our neighborhoods greater!
The testing phase of the College Hill traffic initiative will begin Tuesday August 1. The plan was presented at last Thursday’s neighborhood meeting. About 50 people turned out to hear about the plan and discuss issues that the plan addresses.
The “College Hill for Everyone” plan includes ideas to slow traffic, to make streets safer for pedestrians and to raise awareness of College Hill’s distinct identity among people coming into and through the neighborhood. It was developed by neighborhood planners Team Better Block of Dallas, working with the College Hill Neighborhood Association and the Greensboro Planning Department. It addresses needs identified by the College Hill residents in the neighborhood plan adopted in 2015. The project is being paid for by the neighborhood with its Municipal Service District funds.
Before freaking out about any of this, please note: No changes will be implemented on a permanent basis before they are tested and response from the neighborhood is gathered.
The plan focuses initially on the installation of demonstration projects on South Mendenhall Street from Rankin Place to Walker Avenue. They will be put in place on a test basis August 1. A second demonstration phase will occur in the fall on Mendenhall from Walker to Spring Garden Street and on Spring Garden from Mendenhall to Fulton Street. Details on the second phase will come later this summer.
The demonstration projects will be temporary installations of street improvements designed to slow traffic on Mendenhall and Spring Garden — the two College Hill streets where speed limits are most abused — and to make the streets more safe, convenient and comfortable for pedestrians. The results of the tests will determine what changes will be implemented on a permanent basis.
Greensboro Mural Project artist Terri Jones works on the People’s Perk’s new mural, “Wonderful Women and Fabulous Femmes.” (photo by Lauren Barber courtesy of Triad City Beat)
Last February, The People’s Perk held a Kickstarter campaign for a mural inside the coffee house. The campaign was successful, the mural has been painted, and on Sunday the Perk will hold a celebration to unveil the work. Triad City Beat has the details in this week’s issue. The mural was created by Terri Jones and Gloria Williams of the Greensboro Mural Project. The idea:
“Too often, important people — particularly women, trans women, and women/trans women of color — who’ve fought for social justice, equality and unity, are forgotten in mainstream historical accounts.
“In celebration of Women’s History Month, The People’s Perk, a locally-owned, neighborhood coffee/retail shop in Greensboro, NC, which encourages creative expression in all people, is partnering with the Greensboro Mural Project (GSO Mural Project), a Greensboro-based grassroots, arts-centered organization, to create a special mural entitled ‘Wonderful Women and Fabulous Femmes.’”
The event will be held Sunday, July 9, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. If you don’t know the way, the Perk is at 551 S. Mendenhall Street, near the intersection with Spring Garden Street.
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Click for a Google map of College Hill
While looking for something else today, I came across some data on College Hill. The demographic data comes from the 2010 census, which is a little dated but no doubt still pretty accurate. The addition of The Province will add to the population the next time around (should the Trump administration bother with a census in 2020).
Census tract: 107.02
Note: The census tract’s boundary includes the UNCG campus and extends east to Edgeworth Street, two blocks beyond the boundary of the neighborhood. Similar mistakes are found in many depictions of the neighborhood’s east and southeast boundaries, including the Google map above.
The March for Babies will be held on the UNCG campus on Saturday April 29 beginning at 10 a.m. The route will include Tate Street from Carr to Spring Garden and Spring Garden Street from Tate to Stirling Street. The event is a fund-raiser for the March of Dimes. Click here for more information on the event.
