Recently voted the 17th best place in the United States to live and launch a small business, Santa Fe,New Mexico is a small city on the rise.  Located on a picturesque plateau in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the place has a lot ...

Way back in June of 2008, when ScaleDown partnered with Artcite for our roundtable discussion on the effects of urban sprawl, panelist Veronika Mogyrody watered the seed that was planted to rebrand the city of ...

As I see the economy take blow after ferocious blow I cannot help but think “how long can this last?”  Throughout history, local and otherwise, we have always found a way to persevere....

I finally can start contributing to the downtown core in a more meaningful way. Over the past few years, bureaucracy and organization took precedent over nuts and bolts improvements. Now all of that is important and I commend the entire board for working on that as it ...

It was late Saturday night.  I was dead awake and needed something other than infomercials and Scooby-Doo reruns to watch so I turned to PBS.  On it was one of my favourite programs, ...

Remember my life in a silo? When you tend to spend all your time with your head down, working feverishly on your own pet-projects? Well, as soon as I lifted my head ...

Apparantly last night Thom Hunt said that I misinterpreted the Q&A contained in PAC 1. Thet there was never any recommendation to limit the building of new commercial space. I think you should read the PAC 1 Q&A as I maintain and hope I did not misinterpret it. (IF I did, ...

Good news and bad news for Walkervillians in this post. I'll start out with the bad news.  Good friend Karen from The Hounds of Walkerville (S/E corner Windermere and Wyandotte) ...