Design layout for Gateway Plaza at Broadway and Providence Road.
After several setbacks and challenges, the Plaza and sculpture remain on schedule.Â
The Plaza construction site is located on Providence Road and Broadway Boulevard and sits right on top of a part of the Flat Branch Creek.
The new Gateway Plaza will be constructed in downtown Columbia on the southeast corner of Providence Road and Broadway. Major King There is some pretty elaborate engineering that had to be done to get it stable enough to put a million dollar sculpture on top of it, Gateway Committee Chair Debbie Sheals said.Â
Integration and the disappearance of Black teachers Wednesday, April 28, 2021 In an undated photograph developed from film brought to George Dexter Sherrill’s Waynesville studio for developing in the early 1900s, an African American man leans on a school bus. Hunter Library, Western Carolina University photo
For Lin Forney, the end of fourth grade was the end of an era.
The year was 1963, and the world was changing. Nine years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision struck down the “separate-but-equal” precedent that allowed racial segregation in schools, and the Civil Rights movement was spurring change or at least talk of it in communities across the South. Now, that change was coming home to Haywood County. The schools were desegregating.
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First Ward Councilwoman Pat Fowler was outspoken Monday night during the Columbia City Council meeting about her support of an ordinance that would allow restaurants to use parking spaces for outdoor seating.
Restaurants currently can apply at least three weeks in advance for the right to use a permit that would provide extra space for outdoor dining. However, that temporary permit would only last 20 days under the original ordinance. That period of time isn t cost-effective for local businesses, Fowler said.
“It seems like the restaurants would not get a benefit out of that if they had to dismantle it and move it within 20 days only to apply to bring it back, Fowler said.
Restaurant owners interested in converting city parking spaces into additional outdoor seating will be able to apply to the city for a permit to do so.
The Columbia City Council voted unanimously Monday night to make city parking spaces available to restaurants through the end of the year, in response to seating restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The permits would be valid for up to 90 days. Restaurants would be responsible for keeping patrons safe from street traffic by erecting barriers and would be prohibited from interfering with street or sidewalk right of way.
City staff had originally proposed the permits be restricted to 20 days. First Ward Councilmember Pat Fowler, however, moved to extend that time to 90 days, saying few would go to the trouble of setting up dining in parking spaces if they could have it for only 20 days.