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Today's Poll!What use is Jefferson City festival district?
Official: Goal is to foster pleasant gathering place
Allen Weider, left, and James Deem talk during a Thursday Night Live in 2010. Jefferson City will try out a festival district to allow alcohol at the events this year. Photo by Stephen Brooks.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
The Jefferson City Council could decide soon to create the city's first festival district, complete with a temporary waiver of the city’s open container ordinance. But why does the city need such a district?
The short answer is because it was identified in the Ad Hoc Committee on the Revitalization of Old Town’s 10 suggestions to the council as a way to enhance the older part of the city, and in the first phase of the Jefferson City Area Chamber of Commerce’s economic development plan.
According to Mark Mehmert, community development manager for the chamber, the idea was something that was spawned from the chamber's discussions with its Young Professionals group.
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JCLifer 2 years, 1 month ago
Bikers and beer! My favorite!!!
wow 2 years, 1 month ago
Who is this "Young Professionals group"? I'd like to meet them. Also how much did the Adhoc Committee and Mark Mehmert charge the JC tax payers for this advice? I mean how much did we pay them for this brain storm of an idea? I mean really and open beer mart down town is all we need in order to bring JC to prominence?
We turned down Casino's, IBM, Airport Modifications, A Nuclear Plant (Callaway County), a new High School, Infrastructure Improvements and much more for advice on an open beer garden...JC is gonna go far with that type of thinking.
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