While porch swings have been used in other cities such as Montreal and even Tampa, people like Jay Revell, executive director of the Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority, see them as the ideal symbol to capture Tallahassee’s charm.
The next Capital City Date Night event in downtown Tallahassee is Wednesday evening — a performance of dueling pianos at Clyde’s and Costello’s on South Adams Street.
Sense of place comes from human-scale objects that catch people’s attention and make them notice their surroundings. It starts with beautification and leads to larger physical projects.
A working farm, run by mostly young people, has taken root. It began in 2011 and ever since, it’s grown into a living, breathing example of what can thrive when residents put their minds together.
Cascades Park is just not the place for those who simply want to find something to whine and complain about local government. It is too spectacular, too beautiful and too genius for that.
There’s a space where an imagination can run wild, an amphitheater to jam out in and trails that are the perfect place to get active — just to name a few of the park’s features.
On a picture-perfect, sunshiny Friday morning, about 1,000 people attended the official opening ceremony of Cascades Park, a 26-acre swath of downtown that curves from South Monroe Street to Apalachee Parkway.
