Arlington Town Day: September 17, 2016
Support Arlington Center at Town Day!
Thanks to all who visited us at the Department of Planning and Community Development Booth #188 (between Court and Water Street) on Town Day on Saturday, September 17th. We had volunteers from Support Arlington Center, Support Arlington Heights, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), and the department. In July, the Town received a grant for technical assistance from MAPC to create this plan to advance the Master Plan’s historic and cultural resource area goals and bolster the effort to create a Cultural District (from Arlington Center to East Arlington). Our ultimate goal is to have a plan that will strengthen and grow arts and cultural opportunities in Arlington, leading to a thriving arts and cultural life for all.
We had lots of materials at our booth:
Thanks to all who visited us at the Department of Planning and Community Development Booth #188 (between Court and Water Street) on Town Day on Saturday, September 17th. We had volunteers from Support Arlington Center, Support Arlington Heights, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), and the department. In July, the Town received a grant for technical assistance from MAPC to create this plan to advance the Master Plan’s historic and cultural resource area goals and bolster the effort to create a Cultural District (from Arlington Center to East Arlington). Our ultimate goal is to have a plan that will strengthen and grow arts and cultural opportunities in Arlington, leading to a thriving arts and cultural life for all.
We had lots of materials at our booth:
- Department of Planning and Community Development information/ handouts
- Conservation Commission handouts
- Support Arlington Heights information/ handouts
- Support Arlington Center information/ handouts
- Postcards/business cards with a link to the Cultural Plan project web page
- A handout with talking points - general goals, objectives, and outcomes of the planning process (a town-wide arts and cultural assets inventory and preliminary action plan
- Raffle items for interactive activity (grab a red ticket stub; write your phone or email address and name; we will notify the winner after the event is over by email or phone.)
- Copies of the Arlington Master Plan
- Arlington Cultural District Designation map
- Economic Impact of Arlington’s Theatres study
- Sign-up sheet for people to provide their name and email and sign up for news about any of the following: Arlington Cultural Plan, Support Arlington Center, and Support Arlington Heights
- Handout for Mass Ave Phase II Conceptual Plan September 22nd meeting
- Poster, 24x36 with the following interactive activity (markers to write ideas): – Arlington is starting a cultural planning process: If you were showing someone around Arlington for the first time, where would you go and what would you take them to see?, What are some of the best arts and cultural assets in town?, and What do you think are some of the most underutilized arts and culture assets in town?
