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The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership is committed to improving our downtown district. To learn more about our current and past initiatives, scroll down. Franklin Street Comes Alive! Real Change From Spare Change Real Change From Spare Change is a community-wide, collaborative initiative designed to educate, encourage, and empower Chapel Hill and Carrboro citizens, and the UNC community to evoke real change for those in need. Real Change From Spare Change raises funds to continue the street outreach work that is currently being done in Orange County and educate the community on the issues of homelessness and panhandling in Chapel Hill. For complete details please visit the Real Change from Spare Change website. Click here for creative and fun ways to be a part of Real Change from Spare Change and our communities efforts to address the issues of panhandling and homelessness in Chapel Hill. For information on volunteering or donating to Project Homeless Connect 2010 visit www.phc-orange.org! Hargraves map, Gym map, 2010 Fact Sheet, 2010 Guest Flyer, 2010 Volunteer Flyer. Business or organizations that are interested in helping to promote the initiative are encouraged to endorse Real Change from Spare Change. Also, if you are interested in displaying a donation or for more information please contact Meg McGurk at meg@downtownchapelhill.com Downtown Business & Property Owner Listening Sessions The Downtown Partnership hosts listening sessions exclusively for downtown merchants and property owners. The events are held in downtown businesses and give merchants an opportunity to network, provide the agency with feedback on issues and gives them a platform to share information on their successes and ideas for improvements. The Partnership is able to to raise awareness of what we have accomplished and our future goals for the agency.
The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership, the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill and the Chapel Hill Historical Society have embarked on a mural restoration project to catalog and restore the murals of downtown Chapel Hill. Downtown Chapel Hill boasts twenty hand-painted murals by local artist Michael Brown. The first public mural by Michael Brown was painted in 1989 on the back of a privately owned building; the mural is visible from the corner of Rosemary Street and Columbia Street. Simply titled “The Blue Mural”, it depicts a nighttime scene of Franklin Street. Since then Michael Brown has painted creative and beautiful murals all around downtown Chapel Hill. Anyone who has ever walked, driven or bicycled in downtown Chapel Hill has seen these murals. They are cultural fixtures of our community that make the downtown come alive in colors, figures and patterns. To support the Painted Walls Project please visit http://www.chapelhillpreservation.com/mural.htm Below are links to articles that have recently been featured in the Chapel Hill News about the project: Mural's Days Numbered? (PDF) The Turtles, 1993 (PDF) The Handprints, 1970 (PDF) The Blue Mural, 1989 (PDF) Mural, Mural on the Wall: Editorial (PDF) The Pencil Mural, 1991 (PDF) The Parade, 1977 (PDF) The Puzzle Pieces, 1999 (PDF) Why We Should Save Our Murals (PDF) Touch Downtown Chapel Hill It's your school. Your team. Your town. So why not make it your day? There's a lot to do all around Chapel Hill, so stay and play on game day. Touch Downtown Chapel Hill encourages football fans to start early and stay late in Chapel Hill after the game ends and enjoy nearly 100 restaurants, 50 specialty stores and a mile of family cultural attractions with a dedicated bus shuttle bringing fans on a loop from their car, to downtown, to the stadium...and back! Locally Grown Movie and Concert Series Locally Grown is a summer series of Live Concerts and Outdoor Movies featuring local entertainers and family friendly activities in Downtown Chapel Hill. Our mission is to promote the downtown community by encouraging people and families to come downtown and shop, eat and be local patrons for businesses throughout the downtown district. Locally Grown is held on Thursday evenings in the summer on the Wallace Plaza atop the Wallace Parking Deck at 150 E. Rosemary Street. Locally Grown is jointly sponsored with the Downtown Partnership, The Town of Chapel Hill, Local 506, WCHL 1360, Varsity on Franklin Theater, 140 West Franklin, and the Herald Sun. For more information and a schedule of events please visit www.locally-grown.com. Good Neighbor Initiative The Downtown Partnership participates in the Good Neighbor Initiative at the beginning of the fall semester at UNC along with The Chapel Hill Police Department Community Services Unit, the Office of Student Affairs, UNC Local Relations Office, the student body government, and Empowerment Inc. The goal of the initiative is to encourage students to meet their neighbors and to work with them to make Chapel Hill neighborhoods a place of pride and safety. Members of these organizations walk through the Northside, Pine Knolls and Cameron-McCauley neighborhoods, delivering packets to residents. The packets contain information concerning area services, garbage collection and recycling, local ordinances (including noise limits), alcohol laws and safety information. The Good Neighbor Initiative also hosts a community block for neighbors to meet each other, enjoy good food and play games. For more information please click here. Downtown Banner Program In early 2007 the Partnership's Decorations Task Force identified the need for a noticeable design change that would enhance the visual appeal of the downtown area and create a welcoming atmosphere for visitors. The first set of banners soon went up; welcoming everyone downtown in Carolina blue. The following year "TouchDowntown" Banners went up promoting game day activities downtown and on campus. The Partnership continues to manage the banner program as banners are rotated on display every quarter. For more information please contact us at 967-9440. West End Valet Parking Service The West End Valet Parking Service began in January 2007 and is managed by the Downtown Partnership. The service is available Monday to Saturday from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm and is operated by Royal Parking, Inc. Courtesy Valet Parking is provided to patrons of participating businesses with a validated parking receipt. Downtown visitors enjoying other establishments can also use the valet service for a $5.00 charge. Drop cars off at the Valet Parking stand located in front of the UNC Information Technology building (440 West Franklin Street), near the West End Wine Bar. Parking is always FREE in Downtown Chapel Hill every Sunday! Participating Businesses: Downtown Events & Sales Emails The Downtown Partnership sends out a weekly email highlighting all of the events, sales, and promotions that are taking place each weekend in and around Downtown Chapel Hill. The emails are a great opportunity for downtown merchants to highlight their businesses and for the community to find out about all of the amazing events going on in the downtown. To sign up for the emails - click here! Downtown businesses and organizations may submit information for the weekly emails by emailing partnership@downtownchapelhill.com or calling 967-9440. Cleanliness and Safety Initiatives CLEANLINESS -The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership is committed to improving downtown cleanliness. The Town of Chapel Hill hired a Downtown Groundskeeper in 2006 to maintain public property with in the Downtown Service District. In 2007 the Downtown Partnership hired two groundskeepers that maintain the 65 raised brick planters that line the entire downtown district and work on improvement and design projects. Also, there are many opportunities for volunteers and groups to clean within the Downtown Service District. SAFETY - Improving safety was identified as one of the top priorities for downtown businesses and visitors during surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006. The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership is building public and private partners for a SAFER downtown. In 2006, the Town of Chapel Hill instituted a dedicated Downtown Police Unit. Read the press release announcing the unit. INFORMATION & FORMS: CodeRED Emergency Notification System Chapel Hill Fire Department Expands Life Safety Division LED Exit Sign: Quick Questions Downtown Parking Study Information The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership in partnership with the Town of Chapel Hill hired the parking consulting firm of Rich & Associates to conduct the study. The study includes a current assessment of parking, an analysis of parking supply and demand, as well as parking promotions, management, policies and maintenance. The study makes recommendations on how to improve parking in the downtown. To view the amended parking resolution submitted 3-16-09, please click here. To view the FINAL Parking Study, please click here. To view the Parking Study Recommendations, please click here. The Downtown Partnership held a public forum on Thursday, October 30th. To view the comments from the forum - please click here. This information is also available at the Downtown Partnership's office located at 308 West Rosemary Street, Suite 202. To receive a copy by mail, email or fax contact the Downtown Partnership at 967-9440 or partnership@downtownchapelhill.com.
The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership was awarded a grant from Keep America Beautiful in 2008 to address the growing issue of cigarette litter in Downtown Chapel Hill. After conducting a scan of cigarette litter in selected areas of the downtown; CHDP offered selected businesses FREE ash receptacles and FREE pocket ash trays for customers; all in an effort to make our downtown a cleaner and greener environment for everyone! With the new Smoke-Free Restaurants and Bars Law enacted in January 2010 throughout North Carolina, the students of Orange County Tobacco.Reality.Unfiltered. (TRU) from Chapel Hill High School (CHHS) wondered how the law might be impacting the amount of cigarette litter in our community. Due to the fact that smokers are now prohibited from smoking inside of restaurants and bars, the students thought there may be an increase in cigarette litter on the sidewalks and areas in front of those establishments. They found a slight increase in litter from the original scan. They concluded that the downtown area is still in need of proper cigarette litter receptacles to address the litter. Holiday Lights in Downtown Chapel Hill Starting with the Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Memorial Garden at University Baptist Church on the corner of South Columbia Street and West Franklin Street the downtown glows under our snowflake decorations the entire season. For a complete schedule of the holiday events, please visit the CHDP calendar.
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