{"id":293,"date":"2010-11-21T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-11-17T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:35:10","slug":"two-winchester-projects-receive-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Two Winchester Projects Receive Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winchesterva.gov\/enews\/images\/City-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"263\" align=\"left\" \/><em> (Reprinted from Winchester&#8217;s CitE-Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 23.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two projects from Old Town Winchester were honored by the VDDA in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The  Downtown Winchester Renaissance and Improvements Project was honored in the  Commercial Revitalization Plans and Streetscapes category.\u00a0 The project saw the  following work completed downtown over the course of 18 months:\u00a0 replacing water  utility infrastructure; installing brick sidewalks, decorative streetlights,  meter posts and crosswalks; converting Cameron and Braddock Streets to two-way  traffic; the construction of the George Washington Autopark; the installation of  wayfinding signage and artscape banners; the relocation of the Winchester  Department of Social Services to the Our Health Campus; revisions to the city\u2019s  Zoning Ordinance to streamline and facilitate the development of upper-floor  apartments in buildings; and installing shade trees downtown and in new medians  along Cameron Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Lovett Building Project (163-165 N. Loudoun St.) was nominated by the Old  Town Development Board and honored in the Building Development and Improvements  category.\u00a0 The project included the development of five upscale apartments on  the building\u2019s upper floors and 1,630 square feet of retail space on the first  floor, now occupied by Espresso Bar &amp; Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Helm, Executive Director of the Old Town Development Board, was quoted  in the November 8 issue of the Winchester Star saying, \u201c\u2026as we\u2019re pulling out of  the recession now, our city looks ready to do business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winchesterva.gov\/enews\/index.php\">Click here to subscribe to Winchester&#8217;s free, bi-weekly newsletter CitE-News.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reprinted from Winchester&#8217;s CitE-Newsletter Vol. 3, Issue 23.) Two projects from Old Town Winchester were honored by the VDDA in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month. The Downtown Winchester Renaissance and Improvements Project was honored in the Commercial Revitalization Plans and Streetscapes category.\u00a0 The project saw the following work completed downtown over the course of 18 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Winchester Projects Receive Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[39,59],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-events","category-winchester-historic-district","tag-informational-events","tag-winchester-historic-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}