Starting Monday, Kent Patch launches a new array that takes a look at the city's redevelopment.
The series, that will hurl out over 5 days, is called Kent's Changing Landscape: Redefining a College Town .
Our summer Patch intern, Nathan Edwards , outlayed time this summer reviewing the ancestral buildings that have been demolished to make way for thousands of block feet of new residential, blurb and sell space. He moreover papers the new projects and demolitions going on, not only downtown, but around Kent.
Through the series, we'll examine a few of the particular elements of Kent's redevelopment " a few good, a few bad. We'll speak with people who recollect what once take over in the places that have given been demolished. And we'll examine the on the whole objective of all this redevelopment work " formulating a stronger, more one town-gown sky between the town and Kent State University to final for generations.
Our initial piece, about the Robin Hood Inn , will tell Monday at noon. Attached to this foreword you'll find 8 formerly videos about the leading components of Kent's mercantile redevelopment.
But our work doesn't finish with this series. We wish to go on to tell the stories of Kent's reshaping as many of these projects go on in to 2012 and 2013. And you wish you to help us tell them by pity your photos, memories and other memorabilia about the pieces of Kent's landscape that have right away used in to history.
We urge on you to send your photos and letters to the editor about the existing projects as their building continues.
Send feedback about the array and Kent's on the whole redevelopment to Kent Patch Editor Matt Fredmonsky at matt.fredmonsky@patch.com.
