Funding a boom
Public financing helps boost downtown renovations

 
By Steve Lackmeyer
Published: March 7, 2008

After conquering the once blighted 1100 block of N Walker, developer Greg Banta is moving his construction crews to the intersection of NW 10 and Robinson, where the task of renovating old buildings is even more challenging.

The sound of jackhammers has been bellowing the past few days from inside the former Packard dealership on the northwest corner of NW 10 and Robinson. For years the building was boarded up and ho...


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