Footloose Needs to Hit Carrboro
Say whaaaa??....
This is a damn shame. One of the best public commons areas in the Southeast have duped the people of Carrboro. The management at Carr Mill have banned dancing and other public performances in front of Weaver Street Market.
I've been bragging about how Weaver Street Market is an incredible example for small towns to create a public place through creating an experience with commercial properties. Well, send this example down the drain because the experience is drying up.
The area's performance area that holds a cast of characters, which include Bruce Thomas otherwise known as the 'Dancing Man', is now closed for performers...Geezus. You have to be kidding me.
Check out the full story here from the Durham Herald-Sun. Some stiff guy had to make this call. If this continues, the commons area is going on one of my public places extinction list.
This is what happens when you have public places that are privatized. The property owners preach a huge game about how they want to create a public space for people to commune in order to ease the community's concerns when they develop the property. Yet, when it's all said and done, they control the uses and who's allowed to use a public place that is in the center of a highly trafficked area...Ridiculous.
By the way, I'm sending this to Project for Public Places...They should know about this. Put it on their awards list or something.
These clowns have even knocked out my Weaver Street hula hoop girl. Her crime is that she looks fly and gets everyone to work out with the hoops.
What the hell is going on here? God Save the Planet...I loved that place.
Dance, dance, dance...
IronDog
This is a damn shame. One of the best public commons areas in the Southeast have duped the people of Carrboro. The management at Carr Mill have banned dancing and other public performances in front of Weaver Street Market.
I've been bragging about how Weaver Street Market is an incredible example for small towns to create a public place through creating an experience with commercial properties. Well, send this example down the drain because the experience is drying up.
The area's performance area that holds a cast of characters, which include Bruce Thomas otherwise known as the 'Dancing Man', is now closed for performers...Geezus. You have to be kidding me.
Check out the full story here from the Durham Herald-Sun. Some stiff guy had to make this call. If this continues, the commons area is going on one of my public places extinction list.
This is what happens when you have public places that are privatized. The property owners preach a huge game about how they want to create a public space for people to commune in order to ease the community's concerns when they develop the property. Yet, when it's all said and done, they control the uses and who's allowed to use a public place that is in the center of a highly trafficked area...Ridiculous.
By the way, I'm sending this to Project for Public Places...They should know about this. Put it on their awards list or something.
These clowns have even knocked out my Weaver Street hula hoop girl. Her crime is that she looks fly and gets everyone to work out with the hoops.
What the hell is going on here? God Save the Planet...I loved that place.
Dance, dance, dance...
IronDog
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