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• First-ever Green Center Established to Lead in Green Technology Development
  Harrisburg, PA – Mayor Stephen R. Reed and HACC President Edna V. Baehre today announced the establishment of a first-ever institute for the development, teaching and application of green technologies.
• Urban Meadow Completed in Midtown
  Harrisburg, PA - The Dauphin County Commissioners, Jeffrey Haste, Dominic DiFransesco, II, George Hartwick, III, joined HACC President Edna Bachre, Ph.D, and Doug Neidich, Chairman of GreenWorks Development LLC, at dedication ceremonies for a block-long pedestrian walkway called the "Urban Meadow."
• Legislative Alert!
  Funding for Main & Elm Street programming in danger -- act now to save this funding!
• Midtown Developer To Demolish Seriously Blighted Properties
  Midtown developers Powers & Associates today announced that it has purchased dozens of seriously blighted residential properties in the Midtown area and intends to demolish the structures as soon as possible.
• Help Improve The Neighborhood By Helping Feral Cats
  In November, friends of the Midtown neighborhood cats will begin working with PAWS to humanely reduce the number of new kittens born to a short, dangerous life of suffering as free-roaming cats.
• Safety Whistles Make Way Through Midtown
  In response to recent violence in Harrisburg's Midtown section, leaders are arming residents with a crime prevention tool - small blue emergency whistles are making their way through Midtown.
• Midtown Harrisburg Park In Sight
  Work has begun on a new park in Harrisburg's midtown area, Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced.
  
  Urban Meadows will be a block-long parkway that connects Harrisburg Area Community College's (HACC) Midtown Center with other midtown points between the 1500 blocks of North Third and North Fourth streets, Reed said in a statement. The adjacent Boyd Street has been abandoned for the project, Reed said.
• Midtown Cinema - Theater To Keep Format After Move
  Plans to move the Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg took shape Thursday, with an announcement that a developer will use a state loan to build a facility down the block.
• Mayor Wants Housing In College Hub
  Harrisburg is looking for a private company to build as many as 350 units of student housing in the city's midtown neighborhood.
• Midtown Developer Purchases Reily Midtown Cinema Building; Theatre to Remain in Business at Site Pending Move to New Midtown Quarters; New Police Patrols Funded by Developer to Also Begin Service in Midtown
  Harrisburg, PA - Mayor Stephen R. Reed and officials from Powers and Associates and the Midtown Market District today announced that they have reached agreement on the sale of the Reily Midtown Cinema Building at 250 Reily Street.
• New Crime Watch Group forms in Old Uptowne Neighborhood, Midtown
  On Tuesday, July 31, 40 plus residents of Old Uptowne met with Captain Cindy Baldwin, Lt. Ralph Brown and Officers Stacey Lauver and Delon Henry of the Harrisburg City Police to organize the first crime watch group for the neighborhood.
• Olde Uptown: Contemporary Townhomes with Historic Style
  Significant progress is being made by WCI Partners, LP and Green Street Properties, LP on their residential redevelopment project in Olde Uptown between Muench and Maclay Streets and Second and Third Streets.
  
• New Life for the PAL Building?
  Plans for the restoration of the former Jewish Community Center / PAL Building on N 3rd St in Historic Midtown into a Midtown Arts Center to be announced by Mayor Stephen R. Reed on or about February 7, 2007.
• Bethesda Mission Plans Renovation & New Facilities
  In public meetings this week, executive director Bryan Yesilonis announced Bethesda Mission's $7.6 million major renovation and building project at 611-613 Reily St.
• Campus Square @ 3rd & Reily
  The $11-mil, 4-story Campus Square Building will feature street-level retail and over 50,000 sq ft of Class A office space in the center of Midtown, across from the new HACC. Demolition of the vacant auto repair shop will begin soon, with project completion in 2008.
• Congratulations to Cheap Date's Jonathan Ragonese!
  The Trinity High School student is one of only 30 North American high school students – the only Pennsylvanian – selected for the 2007 Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY Jazz EnsemblesSM. Ragonese will perform as first tenor saxophonist.
• "Olde Uptown" - A new look for an historic neighborhood
  WCI Partners, LP announces their newest development project -- "Olde Uptown." This project will restore 60+ historical homes, and construct 19+ new townhomes in the neighborhood between Muench and Maclay, Second and Third Streets.
  
• Jazz in Midtown: Cheap Date featuring the Jonathan Ragonese Trio
  So, there's this 17-year-old saxaphone player who can be heard conjuring the spirits of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. Word is that he's more advanced musically than York's Tim Warfield was at that age.
• HACC to Expand Midtown Campus
  HACC announces new, expanded campus at 3rd & Reily streets. The old Evangelical Press building at N 3rd & Reily will undergo a $14 million revitalization as new classroom & laboratory space.
• Paint Midtown 2006
  Those peripatetic, crazy Friends of Midtown are at it again. The guerilla redevelopers have taken over more found space in Midtown to create 2 new shows for GALLERY WALK '06 on Sunday, Sept. 10th from 11am to 6pm.
• Side Street Cinema for Summer 2006
  Friends of Midtown is proud to announce that "Side Street Cinema", a summer-long outdoor movie event, will take place in Midtown Harrisburg from June to September.
  
• 62 Artists Do Lunch a Success for Midtown
  Friends of Midtown is proud to announce the 62 Artists Do Lunch exhibit weekend was a great success. Over $4,400 was raised from the sale of the art lunchboxes which will entirely go to the two food charities.
• The African American Center
  The National African American Cultural Center in Harrisburg (NAACC) will be a unique blend of museum and exhibitry elements, educational facilities, entertainment venues and cultural offerings. See the designs here!