Downtown route goes extra mile for Janesville
If you go
What: The Janesville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau meeting to discuss the "Janesville Mile," a downtown route highlighting attractions, dining establishments and retail outlets.
Where: Lower Courthouse Park, 51 S. Main St., Janesville.
When: 2-3 p.m. Thursday
For more information: Call (608) 757-3171.
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Christine I. Rebout
JANESVILLE — Downtown businesses and anyone who has an interest in the "Janesville Mile" are invited to a meeting to discuss the concept.
The meeting will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday at Lower Courthouse Park, 51 S. Main St., Janesville.
The "Janesville Mile" brings together downtown Janesville attractions, dining establishments and retail outlets as one central Janesville destination for residents and visitors.
It begins with Rotary Botanical Gardens, goes on to Lions Beach, the ice arena, the Janesville Performing Arts Center, the Hedberg Library and then reaches the downtown with the Janesville Armory, Speakeasy, Metropolitan and other attractions, food and retail establishments.
Christine Rebout and Susan Melton of the Janesville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau have been working with Yuri Rashkin, who came up with the idea for the "Janesville Mile."
The concept now has a map/brochure, a website, a Facebook page and a Web page within the bureau's website.
"We are pleased to play a role in moving this project forward, and we would like the community to help refine it even further," Rebout said. "We would appreciate any comments or suggestions as to how the concept and the map could evolve."
The most recent version of the "Janesville Mile" map is being printed and will be distributed at businesses along the route and the visitor center in Palmer Park, as well as the convention and visitors bureau office in Old Towne Mall.
The bureau is accepting donations toward the printing costs. They can be sent to Janesville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, 20 S. Main St., Suite 17, Janesville, 53545.
The map also can be found at janesvillecvb.com/maps/janesville-mile.
Aug 11, 2010 at 8:27 p.m.
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Not really following you Neo.
I thought it was a straight shot when a city calls a commercial district a 'mile.' Like Michigan Avenue in Chicago. This one snakes around without much retail shopping. Also the mile is usually in reference to a mile of stores to shop or a mile of flea market booths. My point is that the name is misleading and people are not going to find what they expect. Maybe call it the 'Janesville Mile, But We're Stretching It A Bit.'
Aug 11, 2010 at 7:52 p.m.
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Taxes People. This is another way the City can re-distribute funds collected for *other* purposes towards the brainStorm Ideas they have for that area. Note: These ideas have been cooking since 1980's. And Still have not been completed. Funds always run somewhere else. Then play the blame game on other issues if the City's responsibilities.
Use Your heads, not your arses'. Think Man Think!
Aug 11, 2010 at 6:48 p.m.
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I saw a guy one night running down Milwaukee St in his boxers. Yes JUST boxers. The police were on foot. Not sure what they were looking at or for but he didn't even flinch at this specticle.
Aug 11, 2010 at 5:10 p.m.
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Let's showcase all of our dumpy houses and apartments along Main street for the world to see! Knock them all down and build middle class condos or something tourists or even Janesville citezens will want to see. I can just see it now, a tourist who is here to see our "Janesville Mile" stops a the Five Points gas station or one of the dumps on Main street to ask for directions or something, and gets robbed by a bum. If you have ever been to the Five Points you know you cant walk in without being asked for change or a cigarette. LET'S CLEAN UP JANESVILLE BEFORE WE SHOW IT OFF!
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