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Downtown merchants are getting in the holiday spirit for a special holiday themed “LoveHendo Saturday,” the last “Open Streets” day of the year, this weekend. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Christmas | Christmas decorations
State regulators shut down Thos. Shepherd & Son funeral home two weeks ago after inspectors found numerous violations of state laws governing funeral services, cremations and upkeep of its crematory. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Home | funeral homes | Melody Shepherd | Thomas R. Shepherd
Two women walk into a bar and start talking about the office. No, wait. That’s not right. The story told by Mike Willey, about his wife, Christa, and her friend, Terry Jacobs, opens this way: Two women walk into an office and start talking about a bar. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | historic buildings | 100 East Allen | Wetmur building
The Hendersonville Planning Board endorsed a four-level parking deck downtown on Monday after members and residents posed questions about the hourly rate, stormwater runoff, the appearance and even vibration that could harm the underwater residents of the ECCO Aquarium & Shark Lab. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | downtown parking | parking deck
The retirement of Hendersonville’s planning, zoning and code enforcement chief has led to a restructuring designed to coordinate the city’s economic development efforts with its zoning functions. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | land-use planning | Lew Holloway | Jamie Carpenter | Susan Frady
A new shop is coming to the old Shelley’s Jewelry space downtown. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | retail | clothing stores
Good job! If you haven’t seen the downtown Christmas lights this season make sure you check them out. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Christmas | Christmas trees
Luminaries will light up Main Street and the avenues to add to the holiday charm of historic downtown Hendersonville Saturday night. Read Story »
The pubcycle is rolling. Read Story »
Downtown Economic Development Program has never been so excited about the sound of a toilet flushing. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | public rest rooms
A rash of vandalism has prompted the county to remove public benches and post "No loitering" signs at the Historic Courthouse plaza. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Historic Courthouse | smoking | vandalism | vaping
In the Sept. 18 and 25 issues of the Lightning, we told in words and pictures the story of downtown revitalization in Hendersonville. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Serpentine Solution | Grand Junction
Second of the Lightning’s two-part report on how the transformative streetscape change in 1976 made Hendersonville’s downtown sustainable for decades to come. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Jody Barber | Serpentine Solution | Kermit Edney
Timeline for Hendersonville's downtown revitalization in the mid-1970s. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Serpentine Solution
Three Chopt Sandwich Shoppe, the downtown eatery known for its free popcorn appetizer and savory sandwiches, is extending its hours into the evening, adding blue-plate specials and possibly beer and wine. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Matthew Rogers
In 1963 a downtown revitalization project known as Operation Foresight transformed Grand Junction, Colorado, and became a national model for stemming the flight of shoppers to the suburbs. Twelve years later, a group of city leaders in Hendersonville used the model to completely update the streetscape of our Main Street here. This week we launch our two-part report on how Grand Junction invented the serpentine solution and how city leaders adopted the S-shaped model here to save downtown for generations. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects | Jody Barber | Serpentine Solution | Grand Junction | Kermit Edney
You won't want to miss this week's Lightning. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects | Serpentine Solution | Grand Junction | Colorado
Another travel website has ranked Hendersonville high for visiting, this time No. 1. Read Story »
Tags: tourism | downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Jump Off Rock
The Downtown Hendersonville Main Street Program has been designated as an accredited Main Street America program for meeting rigorous performance standards set by the National Main Street Center. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Lew Holloway
Bears depicting everything from adoptable dogs to literacy to robotics made their debut on Main Street Friday, kicking off the 2019 edition of Bearfootin's Art Walk. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Lew Holloway | bears | Bearfootin\\\\\\\'
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street Advisory Committee | John Connet
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | downtown hotel | Sunflower
Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville Lightning | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | downtown parking | downtown hotel | Sunflower
A developer and the city of Hendersonville finalized a deal on Friday that clears the way for redevelopment of the Grey Hosiery Mill as apartments. Construction is scheduled to start Monday, city officials said. Read Story »
Tags: United Way | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Kalman Sherman | Sherman\\\'s
Tags: Historic preservation | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Chalk It Up! | Barbara Hughes | Ewbanks & Ewbanks
The new Shine restaurant earns a lot of superlatives. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Historic preservation | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Steve Bevins has cooked everything from fast food to high-end steaks to upscale Chinese. Until recently he ran his own kitchen, as the head chef at Carolina Bistro at Cummings Cove Golf & Country Club. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | John Connet | hotels | Brian Pahle
Just over 170 years ago, river partisans and road partisans fought over where to locate the town of Hendersonville, the seat of the newly formed Henderson County. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | The French Broad: A Kitchen & Wine Bar
Activists gather more and more often on the Historic Courthouse plaza, exercising their right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Historic Courthouse | First Amendment cases
Downtown will be home on weekdays to 50 administrators and office workers, thanks to a large nonprofit health care agency's need for more space. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Blue Ridge Community Health Services
When it comes to downtown, parking and bathrooms are the complaints that downtown development director Lew Holloway hears the most. After years of talk about public rest rooms downtown and where they would go, the City Council finally acted, authorizing the project in the 500 block of Fifth Avenue West next to the Dandelion restaurant. Read Story »
Since it opened 11 years ago, Hands On! Children’s Museum has served more than 250,000 kids and their parents, grandparents, teachers and caregivers. And it’s done so in somewhat a hidden location, in a back condo space of the old Rosdon Mall in the 300 block of North Main. That will change when the museum moves into newly acquired space that fronts on Main. Read Story »
A popular coffee shop on South Main Street has closed. So has a Thai restaurant in the 300 block of North Main. That’s the downside. A new restaurant is in the works in the 300-block by a Hendersonville couple who operate restaurants in Greenville, S.C. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Grey Hosiery Mill
Holiday skating returns to downtown Hendersonville on Tuesday and continues through New Year’s Day. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Christmas | America In Bloom | New Years Eve
When he wasn't sweating in the kitchen to shore up the short-staffed cook staff, Mark Lowe was greeting customers and reveling in the apparent instant success of his new venture, Brooks Tavern. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
The Henderson County Tourism Development Authority is encouraging residents and fans of downtown to vote for Hendersonville as the South’s Best City in the annual South’s Best contest sponsored by Southern Living magazine. Read Story »
Tags: tourism | downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Henderson County Tourism Development Authority
The consultants’ report on a downtown hotel in Hendersonville should be regarded as good news even if the Grey Hosiery Mill is not ultimately the choice of a hotel developer. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Grey Hosiery Mill
Never Blue chef Jesse Roque heads to Raleigh next week to compete in the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association Chef Showdown. Read Story »
Hendersonville is one of 44 towns in North Carolina that the National Main Street Center recognized for economic vitality and adherence to best-practice standards for historic preservation and community revitalization. Read Story »
The Bearfootin’ Bears of 2016 made their debut Friday afternoon as an overflow crowd chuckled at and clapped for downtown’s best loved public art. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | public art | Bearfootin\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'
Patty Adamic, owner of Mike’s On Main in downtown Hendersonville, was named a Main Street Champion at the 2016 North Carolina Main Street Conference in Goldsboro. Read Story »
Sporting a lime green polo shirt with the city of Hendersonville insignia on the front and “PARKING AMBASSADOR” on the back, Jeff Wilkins is ready to make life easier for tourists and other downtown visitor. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | downtown parking
Hendersonville and Brevard both made the list of the 100 Best Small Towns compiled by Livability.com, a website that ranks cities in a variety of categories. Read Story »
SALUDA —Albert S. "Bert" Browning III, who drove a milk truck in Hendersonville starting at age 14 and grew up to become a successful business leader in Hendersonville, died suddenly at his home in Saluda on Monday. He was 85. Read Story »
The 13th annual Bearfootin' Public Art Walkwill take place on May 8 with the Bear Reveal of this year's painted Main Street mascots. Read Story »
The creativity of seven interior designers will be on display during Historic Downtown Hendersonville’s Designer Showcase Saturday, April 18, through May 2. Read Story »
Hendersonville's Main Street makeover was recognized as the Best Outdoor Space Improvement during the North Carolina Main Street Annual Awards Ceremony at the City of Morganton Municipal Auditorium in Morganton on Thursday. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
A counter movement to the big-box store and shopping mall oriented Black Friday, Small Business Saturday is gaining momentum as a holiday event to encourage shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | retail | Black Friday
The chocolate has arrived. Let the countdown begin. Nine days to go till Trick or Treat Street. Read Story »
Bobby Rogers knows that people want to know when his Main Street restaurant will open and what kind of food it will serve. Read Story »
The Lightning's intrepid researcher finds answers to readers' questions. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects | Main Street Advisory Committee | Henderson County Athletics & Activity Center | Ask Matt | Henderson County Youth Soccer Association
The new Monday Night Live! concert series opens tonight with Picante! with Ruben Orengo. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Henderson County Tourism Development Authority
Tags: Festivals | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Chalk It Up!
Sage Gourmet owners Laurie Bakke and Chrissy Filka have opened a lower-level wine cellar stocked with wines from all over the world. Many of the bottles are from small vineyards and are not available at area supermarkets. Read Story »
The North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association has recognized downtown Hendersonville as a "Great Main Street" in the professionals' category of the 2014 Great Places in North Carolina awards program. Read Story »
The Trolley Company and Hendersonville Curb Market will be featured in the June issue of Our State magazine. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Curb Market | Trolley Company
Twenty new bears for the 2014 season will be unveiled Friday at the First Citizens Bank Plaza on Main Street at Sixth Avenue. Read Story »
The birth pains of a new governance for Historic Seventh Avenue District were on display Monday night when city leaders and the existing Seventh Avenue board met to talk about the future. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Historic Seventh Avenue
Falderal Winery, a downtown wine shop at 131 Third Ave. West, is closing next week. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | retail | Henderson County wine industry
A year ago, Hendersonville's Rhythm & Brews Concert Series seemed like something of a high-risk idea. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Rhythm & Brews concert series
Q. What's the story behind the Rosdon Mall mosaic? Read Story »
Temperatures dropped from 70 degrees Friday to the 40s on Saturday for the annual Hendersonville Christmas parade. A brisk wind and nip in the air added to the Christmas spirit as bands, floats, military units, dance troupes, churches, businesses and organizations made their way along the parade route. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Christmas | Hendersonville Merchants and Business Association
The city won't outlaw downtown street musicians but it will restrict where they can play. Read Story »
Hendersonville celebrated the official kickoff of the holiday season Friday night with the traditional Christmas tree lighting on the courthouse square and the debut of a new tradition. Read Story »
More than 400 runners turned out for the first Hendersonville Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day under blue skies with the thermometer at 20 degrees. Read Story »
Matt answers your questions. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | retail | Main Street Advisory Committee | Ask Matt | Kellogg Center | Bearfootin' | Asheville Highway
Hendersonville City Council members said "bah, humbug" to free parking for Christmas shoppers. Except they weren't being Scrooge. Free parking didn't work. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Christmas | downtown parking
From a Halloween Carnival in Fletcher to beer and brats Saturday night in Brevard to a haunted farm there's plenty of Halloween fun starting this weekend. Hendersonville's popular Trick or Treat Street is on Halloween night on Oct. 31. Read Story »
Tags: Festivals | Brevard | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Halloween
The 11th annual Bearfootin' Art Auction at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the Historic Henderson County Courthouse plaza in downtown Hendersonville features the sale of the 2013 edition of the Main Street Bears. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | bears | Bearfootin'
Rooftop dining downtown, a bar and grill run by the owners of the El Paso Mexican restaurants, a café on Chadwick Avenue and a soup and sandwich shop in Saluda are all getting ready to open. Read Story »
Tags: Saluda | restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
The city of Hendersonville has set a ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the third segment of the Main Street makeover and dedicate the "Mountain Memory" fountain at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
The city of Hendersonville has invited residents to take a survey about downtown parking. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | downtown parking
Crews on Tuesday took up the unintentional brick speed bumps on Main Street and replaced them with crosswalks at grade. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
Though Labor Day weekend was at the mercy of Mother Nature, the 67th annual Apple Festival proved to be resilient enough to outlast showers. Read Story »
Tags: Festivals | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | North Carolina Apple Festival | apple farming
Unnoticed amid the fuss over the fountain on the corner of Sixth and Main, the city moved ahead with two new gateway signs on westbound Seventh Avenue. One of the two signs was lighted for the first time on Thursday night, just in time for the 67th annual North Carolina Apple Festival. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
The pricetag for Hendersonville's Main Street mountain fountain has come in at $183,284.59 — a $100,000 cost overrun attributable in part to an underground pump system that the artist had not anticipated. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
The 600 block of North Main Street and the repaving of Seventh Avenue (U.S. 64 west) were completed early today in time for Friday's opening of the North Carolina Apple Festival. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects | Trace Co. | Todd Trace
Organizers of the popular Rhythm & Brews Concert series have asked patrons to leave their folding chairs at home for the final concert this week. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Rhythm & Brews concert series
Moe's Original BBQ and WTZQ AM-1600 are launching a new singer/songwriter showcase the third Thursday of every month from 8 to 9 p.m. upstairs at Moe's in downtown Hendersonville. Read Story »
Tags: Music | restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Hendersonville City Council granted a $1,500 donation to help fund restorations to the McClintock Clock on Main Street at a meeting Thursday. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | McClintock clock
Nine weeks ago, nobody would have known that Hendersonville could pack an out-of-the-way parking lot with hundreds of people for a concert that didn't involve an oldies playlist or an Elvis set. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Rhythm & Brews concert series
Hendersonville Main Street director Lew Holloway said the "anecdotal evidence" he's gotten so far signals a big crowd will turn out for the third concert of the new Rhythm & Brews series, which has proved to be a popular Thursday night event. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Rhythm & Brews concert series
Even in the summer of rain, tourists and local folks stroll up and down Main Street and diners wait 45 minutes for a table. Parking, I hear, is a crisis. Read Story »
The Hendersonville City Council will take up a request to spend up to $5,000 to repair the historic McClintock clock on the side of the Trust Building on East Fourth Avenue at Main Street. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Large crowds for Music on Main at the new stage at the Visitors Center have led to a big fuss. Read Story »
Tags: Music | tourism | Music on Main | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Henderson County Tourism Development Authority
Wayfinding. Log it in. It's the newest buzzword to solve downtown parking problems. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | retail | downtown parking
Frozen yogurt is coming to Hendersonville's Main Street. Read Story »
The Rhythm & Brews concert in downtown Hendersonville drew a big crowd for the second time for an all-girl folk band from Asheville and the hot licks of the headliner, the Lefty Williams Band. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Rhythm & Brews concert series
The Hendersonville City Council on a 3-2 vote Thursday chose a developer for the old Grey Hosiery Mill who plans to renovate the 98-year-old structure for an expanded Wingate University campus. Read Story »
Tags: Historic preservation | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Grey Hosiery Mill
Developers have proposed a Wingate University campus, an upscale marketplace and event center and loft apartments in response to the Hendersonville City Council's request for ideas for a transformation of the 97-year-old Grey Hosiery Mill. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic preservation | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Grey Hosiery Mill | Historic Seventh Avenue
The Hendersonville Historic Preservation Commission will hold the Pork, Pickin' & Preservation event at the Killarney house at 6:30 p.m. on June 28. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | Historic preservation | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Although Jonathan Butler has what may be the most energy efficient elevator in the state of North Carolina, he still does not want people to use it. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Jonathan Butler | Biz611
The second edition of the successful Rhythm and Brews concerts sponsored by the city of Hendersonville cranks up at 6 p.m. tonight with some organizational changes, an all-girl folk and bluegrass band and a bluesy rock band. Read Story »
Tags: Music | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street Advisory Committee | Rhythm & Brews concert series | Lew Holloway
More than 40 vendors will be on hand for the 22nd Annual Sidewalk Antique & Vintage show Saturday in Historic Downtown Hendersonville. Read Story »
Suni McMath says everyone has a memory of meals their grandmother made "and you knew she loved you.""We're trying to bring that menu back for people," she says. Read Story »
Dave Rice and his partner, Erik Chandler, had long known that a weekend festival was likely to bring a big flock of diners into their new Main Street restaurant, Moe's Original Bar-B-Que. Read Story »
Tags: Festivals | restaurants | Garden Jubilee | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
In near perfect weather, a throng of gardeners and browers filled Main Street on Saturday for the 20th annual Garden Jubilee. Read Story »
Tags: Festivals | Gardening | Garden Jubilee | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Henderson County Tourism Development Authority
Larry Morton pointed to a tiny pond beside the railroad tracks between Saluda and East Flat Rock, where an even tinier figure was perched on a rock. Read Story »
Tags: History | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Historic Courthouse | transportation | Henderson County Heritage Museum
Hendersonville's barbecue options are expanding. Read Story »
Historic Downtown Hendersonville merchants are launching a new program aimed at encouraging local residents to shop downtown. Read Story »
Ben and Sue Green decided they could not wait until the work on the 500 and 600 block of North Main Street is done. They have announced the renaming — and rebranding — of the former Living Room Coffee House and Café. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
Flat Rock Playhouse will present "A Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival," the next '"Music on the Rock" series concert, opening April 9 at the Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Crews placed the copper mountaintop on the new fountain at the First Citizens Plaza on Wednesday, giving a clear picture for the first time of what the downtown piece will look like. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Grand visions of a soaring piece of public art on Main Street gave way to a clock tower and now a stone welcome sign. Read Story »
Web surfers from here and afar should be able to catch free Wi-Fi on Main Street by May. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
A Miami architect and builder wants to open an upscale Italian restaurant in the former Flight Wood Grill property if a sale of the property is approved in bankruptcy court. Read Story »
Tags: restaurants | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Sam Neill | Tom Fazio | TJF Enterprises
If it's March, it must be time to plan the many outdoor events in festival-rich Hendersonville. Read Story »
Tags: Festivals | tourism | Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Rhythm & Brews concert series
A year ago, if you walked into a convenience store in Horse Shoe, Tuxedo or Edneyville, you couldn't buy a six-pack of beer or a bottle of wine. Read Story »
Tags: economy | economic development | Sierra Nevada | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards | Burntshirt Vineyards
Flat Rock Playhouse's YouTheatre will host a playwriting workshop for middle and high school age students at the at the Playhouse Downtown from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | YouTheatre | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Playhouse Downtown
Downtown Hendersonville's wireless Internet service, which has been unreliable since the Main Street makeover moved electric lines underground, may get fixed. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is teaming up with the city of Hendersonville and the Friends of Ecusta Trail to bring a summer concert series downtown. Read Story »
Tags: tourism | Sierra Nevada | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Henderson County Tourism Development Authority | Main Street Advisory Committee
Five things to watch in 2013: Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Mills River | Fletcher | Sierra Nevada | Hendersonville Lightning | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | parks and recreation
Biz 611, the business incubator and living example of a sustainable work environment at 611 N. Church St., has its first tenant. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Jonathan Butler | Biz611 | Ken Gaylord | Black Hawk Construction
The Flat Rock Playhouse Music on the Rock concert series returns to Playhouse Downtown on Feb. 6 with A Tribute to Dolly Parton. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Music on the Rock
The city of Hendersonville is taking another stab at recruiting a development partner for the historic Grey Hosiery Mill. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Hendersonville City Councilman Jeff Collis | Grey Hosiery Mill
Downtown Hendersonville businesses were encouraged by the foot traffic and buying over the Christmas holidays. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | retail | Main Street makeover projects | Main Street Advisory Committee
Rejecting direction from the Hendersonville City Council to redesign his proposed public art piece for the corner of Main Street and Seventh Avenue, an Illinois sculptor has withdrawn his work from consideration. Read Story »
Andy Thompson has painted more signs than he can count. On trips to the mountains from his home in Charlotte he had seen the Coca-Cola sign on the side of the old Justus Pharmacy "beaucoups of times." Over the past week the veteran sign painter got to apply his craft to the faded sign. Read Story »
Downtown Hendersonville will get a mountain-themed fountain, but not a 24-foot abstract gateway sculpture, the City Council decided Thursday night as it struggled again with what the city manager described as the "horrific task" of choosing public art. Read Story »
Tags: Art on Main | Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
It's official.It's Christmas in Hendersonville. Read Story »
The Community Foundation of Henderson County has established the temporary Main Street Enhancement Fund to support the public art work planned for downtown. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects
Turn it down, Hendersonville City Council members ordered Thursday night. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Hendersonville City Council members moved Thursday night from choosing the design of two prominent pieces of public art to designing the art themselves. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
When Hendersonville City Council members meet at a downtown condo tonight to hear what nightclub noise sounds like, they will have to make their own. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Hendersonville and Henderson County could be seen on television as the setting of a new reality TV show.A television crew won permission from the city to film in the 400 block of Main Street on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Read Story »
The trouble with public art is that it's so ... public. Read Story »
Tags: Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Main Street makeover projects | Ron Stephens
Models of the proposed public art pieces at two prominent Main Street corners are now on the city's website for the public's viewing and comment. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Hendersonville City Council members did what elected leaders often do when faced with a decision that carries the risk of a big public blowback. They booted it. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
You can't blame the Wilson family for thinking that opening a second Square Root was meant to be. Read Story »
Downtown advisers have chosen finalists for two public art displays that will be part of the city's makeover of the 500 and 600 blocks of North Main Street. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville
Thorn — To the Hendersonville City Council, for traveling down a risky road that could set back impressive progress toward downtown vitality. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Boys & Girls Club | tourism | Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Henderson County Commissioner Larry Young
Hendersonville is the only North Carolina town chosen to be featured in FOX Carolina's "Town Takeover" series in July, taking center stage Monday, July 16. Read Story »
Hendersonville now has a fulltime downtown beat cop. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville City Council | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | Hendersonville Police Department
The city of Hendersonville, property owner Bub Hyder and the CVS drugstore chain should work out a design that will allow a promising redevelopment on the South Main Street strip of land. Read Story »
Tags: Bub Hyder | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | NC Department of Transportation | CVS South Main project
Hendersonville is set to get its 15 minutes of fame. Well, four hours of fame, actually. Read Story »
Gardeners, vendors and shop owners pronounced Garden Jubilee 2012 one of the best ever, with large crowds, good weather and a bountiful selection of flowers, herbs and garden accessories. Read Story »
Tags: Henderson County Travel and Tourism board | Garden Jubilee | Historic Downtown Hendersonville