Site Sights

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The Harrison Demo Unit Completed

Within the offices of Martin Goldstine Knapke, the firm responsible for handling sales of condos at The Harrison has built a demo unit for people to see and touch.

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Site Sights

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A Courtly Winter Sunset

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Subway No More

From Groundbreaking

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Special thanks to Rachel Blakeman for providing the pictures for us today.

Square View Gets Better

http://www.oxblue.com/pro/open/?webPath=bc/harrison

The Harrison Square OxBlue camera is now online. OxBlue technology allows viewers to see the progress of construction from a wide variety of dates and times throughout the construction cycle. Viewers can also view time lapse images of the site at any point and can zoom in on particular areas with impressive clarity.

The new webcam will be a boon to all who are interested in seeing the past, current, and future progress of the Harrison Square site. DFWB commends those involved for the camera's implementation.

Related DFWB Posts:
Keep An Eye On The Square
A View To A Kill(er Project)

Site Sights

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Site Sights

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Preparing The Site

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Ghosts, goblins and... Santa Claus?

Living Tour Pics

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Square Site Pics

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From Tourist In Your Hometown

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From West Central Tour

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Clearing The Way

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Metropolitan Fort Wayne

WOWO's Pat White today mentioned that the downtown Holiday Inn hotel has been sold to "Metropolitan Hotel Group."

The hotel group's website provides these pictures of a "Fort Wayne Metropolitan" ...

A quick search leads to this site, which mentions that the current downtown Holiday Inn is "under contract."
The stayatthemetropolitan.com reservations page currently makes no mention of a Fort Wayne location.

However, the cached page does state, "Fort Wayne Metropolitan, Downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana (Coming Soon)"

What does this mean for Fort Wayne and Harrison Square?

Did the "Metropolitan Hotel Group" gain an interest in downtown Fort Wayne via current development initiatives?

Would a renovated and re-branded Holiday Inn create too much competition for the downtown market and Harrison Square's proposed Courtyard by Marriott?

AroundFortWayne.com Interview

The following interview with Deputy Mayor Mark Becker was conducted by the editor of AroundFortWayne.com on April 25, the day after the Harrison Square city council vote.

AroundFortWayne.com has done an excellent job providing additional Harrison Square news and information. The site also contains many of the best photos of Fort Wayne available online. We highly recommend taking the time to thoroughly check out the site.

The interview is available here:

http://downtown.aroundfortwayne.com/Harrison_Square/Becker_2007_04_25.htm

A portion of the interview that I found particularly interesting was the new information concerning parking availability near Harrison Square. You can view this .pdf file here.

IPFW Presentation Pics

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New renderings of the Harrison Square project were also unveiled today at IPFW. Click the picture below to see all of the new renderings, straight from Hardball Capital!

Since these renderings are from Hardball, they more closely resemble what the finalized Harrison Square project will look like.

Partnership Picture

Fort Wayne Deputy Mayor Mark Becker at the pulpit