Asheville’s first-ever Fed Cup is almost here! Fed Cup will be played at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville, Feb. 10-11, on an indoor hard court. This is the first time that Asheville is hosting Fed Cup. Play begins on both Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 at 12:30 p.m. Team USA is set! It includes Venus and [...]
The Asheville Regional Housing Consortium will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Buncombe County Administration Building, 200 College Street, in the main floor conference room to discuss capacity-building for affordable housing in our region through the use of the federal HOME Investment Partnership Funds overseen by this Consortium and related initiatives. The U.S. [...]
A mobile food vending pilot program comes to 68 Haywood this year! With more than 75 food trucks listed as active in the Asheville area on ashevillefoodtrucks.com, offerings could be wide ranging — everything from tacos to gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. It’s one of several temporary uses recommended by the Haywood Street Community Advisory Team, now made [...]
The City of Asheville has opened applications for three grant programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership Funds (HOME) and the Strategic Partnership Fund. The deadline to apply is Feb. 9. Applicants should be aware that there are some changes to the 2018-19 application procedure. The application process is online and a training webinar is [...]
Asheville hosts a wide variety of special events and festivals across the City’s outdoor public spaces. A new booklet, “City of Asheville Outdoor Public Space 2018 Festivals & Events,” serves as a guide to 70 of the 200 or so of them. But it’s more than a listing of what to do on weekends in [...]
Demolition on City-owned property to make way for affordable housing on Hilliard Avenue has begun. In June, Asheville City Council voted to approve a 64-unit apartment complex project aimed at alleviating the city’s severe lack of affordable housing. Quality, affordable housing is a key goal in City Council’s 2036 Vision statement. The resolution authorized lease of City-owned property by Kassinger [...]
You might say Asheville is in a construction boom. One look at our skyline alone shows towering cranes with workers bustling below, building, bringing the city to new heights. In response to this climate of large-level projects, the WNC Diversity Engagement Coalition — of which the City of Asheville is a member — will host Economic [...]
City of Asheville Strategic Partnership Funds are designed to help serve the community. The program has multiple goals, such as addressing disparities in low-wealth neighborhoods and developing partnerships to support school programs that help close the achievement gap. The fund is also charged with supporting Asheville City Council’s Vision 2036 directly. To better align with multiple priorities, [...]
The City of Asheville, along with partners Pisgah Legal Services and Buncombe County, will host the 2017 Affordable Housing Summit on September 29 at UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center. The 2017 Affordable Housing Summit will bring together developers, investors, planners, local government officials, and policy experts in a day of discussions designed to encourage creative and replicable [...]
Pop-up events at 68 Haywood Street begin this month! First up is a classic car show from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 26, put on by Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. The People’s Park Foundation will host Asheville history lectures on Monday and Thursday evenings, plus yoga and tai chi on Monday mornings. [...]
It’s going to be a dark day. But only for a short time. We’re talking, of course, about the solar eclipse Asheville (and much of the United States) will experience Aug. 21. According to the Astronomy Club of Asheville, the solar eclipse will begin at 1:08 p.m. The mid-point of the eclipse will happen at [...]
American Idol fame touched Asheville once. Could it happen again? The popular singing contest show will come to the ABC network in 2018 and the American Idol audition bus will roll into Asheville for auditions Aug. 27. The show formerly aired on Fox. Those auditions will be held from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 27 at [...]
To address the need for affordable housing, Asheville City Council included $25 million for housing in the voter-approved $74 million bond package passed in November. The City’s aim is to make City-owned land available affordable housing and increase funding for new affordable housing via the Housing Trust Fund. The City of Asheville had a 2.7 percent rental housing [...]
As part of the City of Asheville’s Disparity Study, the City has launched a community conversation about this issue on Open City Hall Asheville. On this platform, we invite area residents and businesses to share insights related to working in the local marketplace. The goal of the disparity study is to help [...]
In June, the City announced that staff will need to phase building components of the River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project (RADTIP) due to budgetary constraints. City Council authorized construction of the modified RADTIP on June 27. At this same meeting, Council directed staff to analyze the feasibility of widening the southern section of the greenway [...]
To know where you need to improve you need to understand where you’ve been and how you are doing now. That’s the reason organizations take measurements. And that’s the point of the City of Asheville’s Disparity Study, which began in June. The study will look at the City’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise Program (MWBE), [...]
Asheville band The Broadcast will be an Xpand Fest headliner. Finding a parking place on Asheville’s popular South Slope is almost as coveted as that first sip of the latest local brew. Once you’ve landed, however, folks can browse from microbrewery to barbecue joint — even chancing on the occasional speakeasy-type dive. The cachet of the South [...]