What makes a space or place valuable to a community?

How do we decide which spaces and places to preserve and which to destroy?

And who should decide?

These are just some of the hard questions that will be discussed at a series beginning this Thursday that looks back at Harrisonburg’s Newtown and the R4 Project, the city’s “urban renewal” initiative of the 1950s and 1960s.

[ Read more about Newtown and the R4 Project at the Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance blog. ]

Details on the event.....

Remembering Newtown       
Lucy Simms Center
Thursday, September 19th
6:30pm to 8:30pm  (doors open at 6:15pm)