Chicon Corridor Demolition Kick-Off Party - Saturday, July 28th

The Chestnut Neighborhood Revitalization Corporation (CNRC) is hosting a demolition party and BBQ this Saturday July 28th from 11 AM - 1:30 PM. We will have food, drinks, music and provide multiple opportunities for everyone to share their past stories and future vision of the corridor.  The BBQ will be held at the site of the old Fresh-Up Club, at 1309 Chicon.

The BBQ will kick off the redevelopment of Chicon. CNRC plans to build three, 3 story mixed use buildings between 13th and 14th streets.  The buildings will have affordable housing condominiums above street level retail.    Please come to the BBQ to learn more about the project and to remember the neighborhoods past will looking toward the future

CANA Summer Potluck this Tuesday

Hi Neighbors,

 

The Chestnut neighborhood association will be holding its summer neighborhood potluck  on Tuesday June 12th, 6-8pm  at the Chestnut Park (corner of 16th and chestnut). Everyone is encouraged to bring a dish to share.

Please come out and support your neighborhood!

Hope to see you there!

6th Street Car -Free Party - May 20th

VIVA STREETS! SAVE the DATE!

A fun, new festival where a car-free street becomes your playground!

When: May 20th, 10am-3pm

Where: Sixth Street – car-free for 2 miles

(Brazos to Robert Martinez)

Join the energetic fun at VIVA STREETS! ¬ -- a free festival that invites you to bicycle, play, get fit, people watch, and celebrate good health. Everyone is welcome – bring friends, bring the family or your whole team or neighborhood. Connect with the community and celebrate Austin.

Enjoy the spectacle and be part of the show. Come equipped for your favorite activity – walking, biking, running, skateboarding, or inline skating – and then discover new ways to get your move on. Eat, drink and shop along the route. See you there!

VIVA STREETS! is a tobacco-free event.

Find us on Facebook | Twitter: @vivastreetsatx | www.vivastreetsaustin.org

E-Cycling Old Computers and TVs - April 15th

Hello Chestnut Addition Neighborhood Association,

The Student Engineering Council is hosting their annual E-cycling drive on April 15, 2012 in the LBJ parking lot from 8 AM to 5 PM. This is a campus-wide effort to reduce poor recycling methods of unwanted and/or unused electronics. Goodwill and Computer Works are teaming up with UT to provide the greater Austin area with an opportunity to recycle their electronics.

During this drive, volunteers can sign up and help with various tasks that include packaging the electronics and directing the flow of traffic.

Our committee was wondering if you knew of any electronics that the Chestnut community may have that we could possibly recycle in the proper manner.

Also, we would greatly appreciate if you spread the word about our event and encourage participation and/or telling people to bring their electronics on this day.

More information can be found on our website - http://sec.engr.utexas.edu/ewaste/

The FB event link - http://www.facebook.com/events/322210364497090/

Thank you so much for your time and effort.

If you have any questions, you can contact us at this e-mail.

Sincerely,

E-cycle team

Please submit articles for CANA Upcoming Newsletter

The quarterly publishing of the CANA news letter is coming up. Please send any articles, comments, or ideas to the CANA.AUSTIN [at] GMAIL [dot] com. Also, if you have a business in the neighborhood, we also publish advertisements.

Thanks.

City of Austin Redevelopment Plan for 11th and 12th Street

To learn more about the City of Austin's plan for redevelopment along 11th and 12th Street:

The Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Office has published a new report to its Web site. Please find the East 11th and 12th Street Development Strategy athttp://www.austintexas.gov/department/east-11th-12th-streets.

Upcoming NPCT Meeting - April 2nd

Hi NPCT,

I've schedule our next Spring Quarterly NPCT Meeting and I wanted to send notice to everyone with the details.

The Chestnut Spring Quarterly NPCT Meeting will be on Monday April 2nd, 2012 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at the David Chapel portable building.

Here is our tentative agenda. If you would like to add an item to the agenda, please send me an email and I will add it to our agenda.

- A presentation by the people who want to open a cocktail lounge at MLK and Chicon.
- An update on the Jeff Lewis garage apartment case.
- An update regarding the CNRC mixed-use development at 13th and Chicon.
- Electing a NPCT member to represent us on the CNRC's project advisory board.

I hope to see everyone there. Best wishes and cheers,

Greg Goeken
Chair
Chestnut NPCT