The Riverwest Neighborhood Association meeting covered several important development and safety issues last month, as well as accepting nominations for its first slate of elected board members. Topic covered: Snail’s Crossing (Baby Park) progress – Art Bar Cafe & Gallery plans – The Riverwest Investment Co-op (RIC) house rehab – Biopak Building – Watertower Park Trust & Property Taxes – Crime and Safety – Bylaw Amendments – Upcoming RNA Elections
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Posted inRNA News
Doctors at Your Door and a Face-Lift for Baby Park
The Riverwest Neighborhood Association met at 7 p.m. on August 12, 2003, at 604 E. Center St. It was announced at the meeting that interns from Columbia St. Mary’s Clinic are accompanying Community Partner Mark McInerney on his door-to-door route in the neighborhood. …. The neighborhood group working with Marina Lee approved a design for Baby Park at Bremen and Burleigh. …. Four RNA committees offered reports.
Posted inFurther Down Stream
August 2003
Bikes for Tykes – Neighborhoods Picnic – Rockerbox MotorFest & PorkerFest – Community Steps – Diversity is Our Strength – ROMP – MORE Youth Inc. – CASH reports TDA relied on false information in its support of SEWRPC freeway expansion plan – RRA Annual Picnic – The Guardian
Posted inNeighborhood News
Bikes for Tykes Program Launches
The kid rode up to the back of the shop every day, looking to fill up the tires on the Barbie bike. For weeks it continued, until Mario Costantini realized the little girl with a brightly-colored forest of beads and little braids on her head was a nine-year old boy named Tyrese, just desperate enough for a bike that he’d risk the taunts and teasing for riding a girl’s bike in his Riverwest neighborhood.
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
La Lune: The Art of Building ‘Rustic’ Furniture
by Kevin Flaherty
When I met Mario Costantini, a kinetic interior designer, he was directing workers in Spanish in front of his furniture-making establishment. Costantini, 48, brought me inside, where an airy showroom displays some of La Lune’s furniture. The showroom, with pleasant terra cotta tiles and an abundance of natural light, opens up into assorted offices, design studios, and the factory.
He brightly introduced me to his staff as the “New York Times reporter” and proceeded to give me the full tour through his 20,000-square-foot design center and factory. The atmosphere inside is bright, with natural light available even in most factory areas. Most work areas are wired for speakers, and music fills the factory floor. The warm smell of sawdust pervades the air.
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