http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/03/17/fair-park-talks-tech-park Comments On: Fair Park talks Tech Park by Leslie Newell Peacock en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by helveticaman]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:43:47 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:23:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
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Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:30:58 -0500 Arkansas Times
Lede: "Biotechnology firms are coming around to a harsh reality: The gravy days are over."

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Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:47:55 -0500 Arkansas Times I agree we really don't need the dang park. But it's here, in a sense, with the creation of that dang board. The creation legislation stacked them with power.
And giving money to a start up is no guarantee that the company won't go bankrupt. Obama learned that lesson.
The best you all in LR can do now is to try to get the board to look somewhere else for the land. It's always going to be a case of "not in my backyard" for these things.
The best bet is turn an old industrial area into a green office park/research park.
Posted by ok72076]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:26:51 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sanford Marker]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:55:56 -0500 Arkansas Times
The story on the Little Rock Technology Authority Board is a perfect example of a board in charge doing what they want without caring what the people want. The Authority board will use their power of eminent domain to steal the land and ruin neighborhoods. You know, the Republicans and big-business Democrats won't change the law after the Supreme Court's decision of a couple years ago allowing cities to use eminent domain in the name of economic redevelopment.

The board is looking in the wrong area if they want land for their park. The perfect area that needs help for economic redevelopment is the east side of I-30 south of the Clinton Library and Heifer Project's headquarters. Imagine an area south of the D-G newspaper's printing press south to the cemetery area.

This would give the park easy access to the freeway, easy access to the River Market and would be visible from the highway which would help it grow!

Plus alot of this area is abandoned businesses and warehouse with some rental property. Yes, some people would still be displaced.

Unfortunately, the only help for the residents of the areas under consideration will be if they can get their places listed as historical really quickly which will be hard to do. By the way, did you notice the board only has 1 minority member and 1 woman but no one representing the public at large?




Jacksonville
Posted by ok72076]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:51:07 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:36:57 -0500 Arkansas Times

Posted by Diogenes]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:13:17 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sanford Marker]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:41:34 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sanford Marker]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:37:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
Draft a simple financial disclosure ordinance for this and all meaningful city boards, gather signatures and let us have a vote. And watch the chamber and its spear carriers openly fight good government.
Posted by Max Brantley]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:03:00 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:43:18 -0500 Arkansas Times
Under law, we don't have to.

"They all sleep in the same dung heap"

Pappaw Diogenes

"A shower of bastards"


Old Scottish curse
Posted by Diogenes]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:58:01 -0500 Arkansas Times
I've also known some biomedical engineers. One mad scientist I knew told me how he created new organisms and released them into the wild on a whim, a dangerous breach of ethics and a toxic hazard. Soon the pandemics can start in midtown Little Rock.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:34:42 -0500 Arkansas Times