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 A Livable Residential Center: 

Defining a Sustainable Way to Repopulate Springfield, Illinois' Core

Submitted October 6, 2011

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Table of Contents

Project Information .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 2

Description of Springfield ................................................................................................................................... 3

Problem Statement and Issues Analysis .............................................................................................................. 5

Maps ........................................................................................................................................................... 7

Objective of SDAT Process .............................................................................................................................. 10

Project Organization: Local Capacity and Resources .................................................................................... 11 

Steering Committee .......................................................................................................................................... 11

Budget and Funding ......................................................................................................................................... 13

Educational Partners ........................................................................................................................................ 14

Communications and Media Outreach Plan ..................................................................................................... 15

SDAT Project Timeline .................................................................................................................................... 16 

Community Partnerships and Support ............................................................................................................ 17 

Supplemental Documents ................................................................................................................................... 23 

Existing and Past Planning Documents ............................................................................................................. 23

Relevant News Articles .................................................................................................................................... 23

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Executive Summary

A little more than 170 years ago, Abraham Lincoln's law practice bustled from a downtown corner in

Springfield, Illinois. Thanks to Lincoln's legislative efforts in the 1830's, Springfield remains the state's capital

to this day. Our sixteenth president also continues to be a modern tourist draw.

Springfield has made wonderful strides toward the economic and cultural revitalization of its central core overthe last twenty years through strong community collaboration. The public and private sectors, not-for-profits,

education and labor have a proven track record of involvement and implementation to achieve outstanding

results, such as the AIA R/UDAT visit in 2002. For example, the city has successfully completed the following

2002 R/UDAT recommendations:

•  Restoration and opening of the Hoogland Center for the Performing Arts;

•  Streetscaping and facade redevelopment;

•  Physical transformation of the east-west corridor, Capitol Avenue;

•  Creation of Office of Capitol Architect;

• Revision of downtown preservation ordinance;

•  Agreement on the need for the demolition of the Stratton Building; and

•  Development of revitalization plans for "connected" neighborhoods, among others.

Yet the central core of the city has experienced a drop in population that threatens the progress made toward

Springfield's urban rebirth. More than 2600 workers from government and commercial sectors have left the

central city over the past seven years for various reasons. This has left vacant commercial space, much of which

is located in buildings in the federal historic district. Possibly linked to this job loss is the fact that the center of 

Springfield has also lost nearly 300 residents since 2000.

We have pinpointed at least two major barriers to repopulation which the AIA Communities by Design 2012

SDAT program could help Springfield overcome:

1.  We seek to best utilize our existing core infrastructure, with all of the complexities of infill and historic

preservation, without expanding any more than necessary into our peripheral greenfields.

2.  The downtown Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district expires in 2016, leaving a potential void for a

major infrastructure funding source.

We have realized that to continue the inner city redevelopment momentum and to ensure its sustainability, we

must tie in environmental and residential elements to our efforts. The trend across the country is for the younger

and older segments of our population to seek an urban, walkable lifestyle, with close access to work, shopping,

dining, worship and entertainment. As recently as April, a Minnesota paper noted "the new reality of both

consumers and builders all but abandoning the bubble-era paradigm of buyers snapping up houses 30 miles from

their jobs in exchange for cheaper homes" (Trends in reverse: It's back to the Cities, Star Tribune, April 3,

2011). A commercial leasing source sees this trend "as a result of changing demographics, with people waiting

longer to get married and also increased vacancies in buildings downtown"(BYOBroker, August 2, 2011). By

increasing our inner city residential traffic, Springfield's core could again attract the grocery stores, drug stores

and diversified businesses necessary to meet the demand.

Springfield would be extremely pleased and honored to be the first Illinois community selected to host a SDAT,

who would help us realize the potential for a sustainable center city.

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Description of Springfield

Springfield is Illinois' state capital, located in Central Illinois, 200 miles south of Chicago and 100 miles north

of St. Louis. The city has an aldermanic form of government, with 10 aldermen and a mayor elected by the

populace.

State government has long been the most notable economic driver in the greater Springfield area. With ametropolitan area of roughly 200,000, which covers Sangamon and Menard counties, Springfield accounts for

roughly half of the total population. As a predominantly service-based economy centered on public employment,

Springfield has the highest business-to-resident ratio in the state. Many of these businesses play either a

supporting role to the large public sector or are service industries requiring a labor pool similar to that of the

public sector.

Springfield also has several key industries and businesses that represent large portions of the employment base.

The largest industry outside of the public sector is health care, and the two largest private employers in the

region are the hospitals located in Springfield, with SIU School of Medicine also among the top employers.

Outside of the healthcare industry, Springfield is home to several large back-office operations for national firms

in the insurance, telecommunications and technology industries.

Springfield has consistently been one of, if not the most, affordable communities in Illinois. From the standpoint

of both business owner and resident, dollars travel farther in Springfield than they would in other metropolitan

areas across the state and nation.

Beginning in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Springfield’s city center began to face the same problems as city

centers in other similar mid-sized urban areas throughout the country:

•  Movement of residential and commercial activities away from the urban core to suburban areas;

•  Expansion of infrastructure spending to support this suburban growth at the expense of interiorimprovements in the urban core;

•  A movement of household wealth and political strength away from neighborhoods surrounding theurban core to suburban areas;

•  Lack of transit options that would allow for reverse commute from suburban and fringe areas into thecity center; and

•  A mix of existing structures often difficult to convert from commercial use to residential use in a cost-effective way given the availability of cheaper land and lower risk outside the city center.

In the late 1980s and into the ‘90s, the city took steps to ameliorate if not reverse this trend. These actionsincluded:

•  The creation of a Tax Increment Financing project area in the downtown;

•  The establishment of an active business group, Downtown Springfield, Inc. (DSI);

•  Encouragement of the redevelopment of existing, but deteriorating, structures in the city center;

•  Actions by city leaders to reverse earlier actions that were seen as detrimental to core redevelopment;

•  Elimination of part of the “downtown mall” that was intended to mirror suburban shopping centers butsimply created access barriers;

•  Efforts to provide streetscape and other amenities in the urban core; and

•  Renewed emphasis on central city planning and improvements.

Other parts of this application detail the progress made in the last decade, including reports listed on page 23.

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Population 

Within 1/2 Mile Radius of the Old State Capitol:

Demographics

Economic information

Entire City:

Within 1/2 Mile Radius of Old State Capitol:

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Problem Statement and Issues Analysis

The primary Study Area will be Springfield’s Downtown; we will further define this illusive border, but its

epicenter is the Old State Capitol (OSC). Constructed in 1836, the OSC sits at the center of an approximately

one square mile area. The core of the community is contained within the “grand avenues.” North, South, East,

and West Grand Avenues were part of a plat in 1859 (Sangamon Valley Collection) to form the boundaries of 

incorporated Springfield. North and South Grand Avenues remain as they were originally named, West GrandAvenue is now MacArthur Boulevard, and East Grand Avenue never came to fruition due to slower easterly

development and today is known as Nineteenth Street. The one square mile core of Springfield contains state

government, the burgeoning Mid-Illinois Medical District, Springfield’s original and varied neighborhoods, and

"downtown." (See Maps 1, 2 and 3 on page 7.)

With much of the past decade's progress targeted toward rebuilding a diverse, central business and cultural

scene, downtown must now confront its "missing persons problem" to ensure continued sustainability. The inner

core has lost 2,600 workers in the past seven years (DSI), through myriad issues including commercial offices

relocating outside the inner city and the overall shrinkage of government payroll; as an example, in the last year

alone, local government employment fell by 500 jobs in the Springfield area as city, county and townshipofficials left vacant or eliminated jobs in response to tight budgets (Illinois Department of Employment Security,

August 2010-August 2011/ State Journal-Register , Aug 26 2011). Downtown can no longer rely on the

government sector to be its primary customer; nor can a sustainable model rely solely upon the quarter-million

tourists that pass through the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum (ALPLM) annually.

Most importantly, to continue the redevelopment momentum and to ensure its sustainability, Springfield needs a

plan to create the appropriate mix of livable, residential spaces in the central district and capture the

demographics who would like to live there. There are already waiting lists for downtown apartments, but there

is not a consensus by building owners or developers on how best to meet the demand. A large pool of potential

residents may be the health care practitioners and SIU School of Medicine students to the north. Approximately

9,500 people work within the Mid-Illinois Medical District and MIMD Chairman Michael Boer has said health

care jobs have helped offset the loss of state government jobs over the last few years (State Journal Register ,

Aug 9 2011).

At the same time, there is a lack of amenities that would attract those seeking a walkable, urban lifestyle. The

last grocery store in the center district, A&P, closed in the late 1960s-early 70s; there is not a dry cleaner or

movie theater. Yet neighborhood retail and service businesses are unwilling to commit without a minimum

threshold of residential foot traffic. Hence, Springfield is faced with the classic chicken vs egg question: what

should we focus on first, the resident or the amenities? Looming over our deliberations is the demise of the

downtown TIF in four years. Springfield also needs a funding plan with best practices for financing thetransition to a fully-realized, central city residential community.

The potential Barriers to Success include: 

Physical

Challenges in Adaptive Reuse: There are many challenges to adaptive reuse, as not all of the existing stock of buildings is conducive to alternate purposes. There is difficulty in preserving older commercial buildings, as

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many do not have significant street frontage, but are full depth to alleys and are not particularly suited forresidences (i.e. lack of natural lighting in the center of the building and lack of egress). The preservationordinance as it stands, and current building codes, do not necessarily reflect the complexity of the central city.

  High-speed rail and freight rail consolidation: The continuing debate over the appropriate Springfield rail

corridor, for the State of Illinois' High Speed Rail project from Chicago to St. Louis, has put many existing and

potential Springfield projects on hold until a final decision is made. The City has been working with a number of 

entities to finalize a plan that will create the least negative impact while capitalizing on the benefits that such a

change could bring. All three rail corridors in Springfield create physical and psychological barriers between the

neighborhoods they divide; the two lines most in contention for expanded use are Third Street and Tenth Street.

Social

 Lack of amenities: There are a lack of "livable" amenities such as grocery stores, dry cleaners, etc. that would be

desired by someone seeking an urban, walkable or cycling lifestyle. There are no biking trails through, or to, the

core of the city.

Parking: Parking in the urban core is actually a psychological issue. There is ample parking according to a 2011

study. However, parking is concentrated in surface lots which would be better utilized as structures, from

parking decks to residential, retail and office space. We need to begin identifying ideal locations that could take

our parking vertically and sustainably.

Economic

TIF expiring: The Downtown TIF expires in December 2016. It has been the primary tool for redevelopment

over the past thirty years.

  Best practice for developers: Is there a codified way for developers to be able to reach consensus on best

practices regarding how to develop historic buildings? Developers have come to the concept of mixed use late;

they usually remain on a singular track for what they do best. Since square footage for office space has

historically brought a higher price than residential space, there are downtown developers willing to sit on a

space for years, waiting for the deal they want, instead of rehabbing the building to make it vital now.

Urban sprawl: The inner core continues to lose traditional tenants to the outskirts and suburbs. As an example,

due to federal law after 9/11, Springfield's Internal Revenue Service office was moved from College and West

Washington to a greenfield site on the outskirts of the city.

Political -

Varied and Different Stakeholders: Springfield’s core includes governmental overlap from the Federal

government to the State to the City including the County, large and small land owners, significant not-for-profitgroups (two major hospitals), and many private sector businesses.

Fiscal Crisis: All of Springfield's government bodies are dealing with tight budgets due to the effects of the

Great Recession. Downtown needs to continue to plan for a government in the short and medium term that will

continue to shrink.

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Objective of SDAT Process 

The objective of Springfield's SDAT project is to create a repopulation plan for a more sustainable downtown

that maintains the area's historic and cultural viability and increases its economic vitality.

Springfield, as a community, hasn't been using our existing core resources to best effect and it shows. We realize

this is how most communities like ours have grown since World War II, but wish to move forward with a more

sustainable model, which truly "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future

generations to meet their own needs" (Brundtland Commission). We need help to interconnect all of the

components that would make Springfield's core district fully livable: such as housing, office and commercial

space, open space, and transit.

Springfield has identified the following outcomes we would like to achieve through the SDAT process:

1.  Plan for attracting amenities/businesses, transit and open spaces desired for repopulation;

2.  Best practices and potential sources for financing improvements (risk capital, etc.) after the TIF runs

out;

3.  Consensus and plan for adaptive reuse of vacant buildings;

4.  Analysis and plan for building codes to encourage new uses for vacant office space; and

5.  Consensus of downtown stakeholders for the pattern of future development.

Springfield has a 10-year history of successfully implementing recommendations from a 2002 R/UDAT study.

The pride and active monitoring of the core has continued through successive mayoral administrations. The

results of the SDAT process will become a viable living document that will be used by the City's Office of 

Planning and Economic Development and the Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission to

further enhance their efforts to encourage economic development and growth in the City of Springfield.

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Steering Committee InformationCharles Joseph Pell, AIA Co-Chair and Primary Contact Lisa Stott, Co-Chair

CJP Architects Incorporated Illinois Dept. of Commerce & Economic

413 E Adams Street Opportunity

Springfield, IL 62701 500 E Monroe

217/544-5444 Springfield, IL 62701

[email protected]  217/785-6160

[email protected] 

Name Affiliation Address PhoneNumber

Email Address

Paul O'Shea,FAIA

City of SpringfieldOffice of Planning &Economic Development

800 East Monroe,Suite 107, 62701

217/789-2377

[email protected] 

Mike Farmer City of SpringfieldOffice of Planning &Economic Development

800 East Monroe,Suite 107, 62701

217/789-2377

[email protected] 

Norm Sims Springfield-SangamonCo Regional PlanningCommission

200 S 9th St, Room212, 62701

217/535-3110

[email protected] 

Diane Reinhart Greater SpringfieldChamber of Commerce 1011 S. Second St,62704 217/525-1173 x 213 [email protected] 

Victoria Ringer Downtown Springfield,Inc.

3 W. Old StateCapitol Plaza, Ste 15,62701

217/544-1723

victoria@downtown  springfield.org

Carolyn Oxtoby Property Owner 216 South SixthStreet, 62701

217/523-3868

Steve Myers Myers Commercial RealEstate

1 W. Old StateCapitol Plaza, 62701

217/747-0019

[email protected] 

Cindy Davis,LEED AP

Resource One 321 E Adams, 62701 217/753-5748

[email protected] 

Mike Rapps Rapps Engineering andApplied Science

821 South DurkinDrive, 62704-1313

217/787-2118

[email protected] 

Bruce Ferry, AIA Ferry and AssociatesArchitects 217 S 7

th

St, 62701 217/522-4100 [email protected] 

Michael Higgins Maldaner's Restaurant 222 S 6th Street,62701

217/522-4313

[email protected] 

Doug Mayol The Cardologist 225 South SixthStreet, 62701-1502

217/525-4121

[email protected] 

Melody Lamar Sustainable Springfield PO Box 9868, 62791 [email protected] 

Wes King Illinois StewardshipAlliance

401 W JacksonParkway, 62704

217/528-1563

[email protected] 

Scott Troehler WSEC 1475 East Plummer 217/483-7887

[email protected] 

Alex Block, AIA Renaissance Architects 201 E Adams St, Ste1B, 62701

217/753-1585

[email protected] 

Mike Waldinger AIA Illinois 1 Old State CapitolPlaza North, Ste300, 62701

217/522-2309 [email protected] 

Tim Mapes Speaker's Office 300 State House,62706

217/782-5350

Howard Peters Springfield UrbanLeague, Inc.

100 North EleventhStreet, 62703-1002

217/789-0830

[email protected] 

Greg Swanson,AIA

Steckel-ParkerArchitects, Inc.

2941 Happy LandingDrive, 62711

217/793-6444

T. David Parker, Melotte Morris Leonatti 213 ½ S. Sixth 217/789-

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AIA Parker Architects Street, 62701 9515

ToddHigginbotham,AIA

FWAI Architects 1 NW Old CapitolPlaza, 62701

217/528-3661

Sue Massie Massie Massie &Associates Inc.

1210 South FifthStreet, 62703-2316

217/544-3210

[email protected] 

Ann Ford Illinois Network of Centers for IndependentLiving

1 W Old StateCapitol Ste 501,62701

217/525-1308

[email protected] 

Julie Bates Green Center, LincolnLand CommunityCollege

5250 Shepherd Rd,62794

217/786-2434

[email protected] 

Steve Combs Enos Park NeighborhoodImprovementAssociation

217/494-6668

[email protected] 

TBD Sangamon County

TBD Capital Area Associationof Realtors

TBD Springfield HousingAuthority

200 North EleventhStreet, 62703-1097

217/753-5757

TBD Commercial Real EstateNetwork 

TBD Mid-Illinois MedicalDistrict

TBD Springfield HistoricSites Commission

TBD Illinois National Bank 

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Proposed Project Budget 

Expense Estimated Hard Cost Estimated In-Kind

Preliminary AssessmentVisit (2 people, 1 night)

AIA Cash Match $300

Air Transportation AIA Cash Match

Graphics Design $300Meeting Space $200

Cash Match to AIA $5,000

Lodging (8 SDAT, 4nights)

$4800

Lodging (8 students) $2400Air Transportation AIA Cash Match

Ground Transportation* $500

Sunday NiteReception/Fundraiser

$2000

Workspace Day 1-3 $1500Meeting Space Day 1 AIA Cash Match $800Meals Day 1 (16+) $1000

Meeting Space Day 2 $800

Meals Day 2 (16+) $1000

Meals Day 3 (16+) $1000

Onsite technology needs AIA Cash Match

Advertising $2000Onsite media support $1000

Web Site $5000

Social Media $400Copies of Report

Misc Supplies Etc $300 $300

TOTAL $5,300 $21,500*Survey Area is walkable

Fundraising Plan

The $5,000 cash match will come from the City of Springfield, as this investment will result in huge returns for

core development. The Steering Committee has begun making general inquiries regarding in-kind donations

from a robust, enthusiastic central city community. In addition, our plans call for paying back the City through

fundraisers, including initial plans for a welcome reception/fundraiser on the Sunday evening of the visit.

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Educational Partners

The University of Illinois-Springfield will be participating in two ways: through the Center for State Policy and

Leadership regarding public policy and financing; and through its Environmental Studies programs. Units on

campus have performed sustainability audits in the past and the campus remains committed to improving

sustainability and educating students on the subject. In addition, Students Allied for a Greener Earth (SAGE), a

student organization, will readily become involved in the project.

Members of AIAS-Illinois, architecture students at the University of Illinois-Champaign, are expected to

participate in a Spring 2012 SDAT visit. In our discussions with the student chapter president, Jason Soderlund,

he indicated that the "Freedom by Design" community service program out of UIUC that focuses on

accessibility issues may also choose Springfield's SDAT as their spring project.

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Communication and Media Outreach Plan

The primary goals of the communications plan will be to:

1.  Attract interest in the SDAT process and ensure widespread participation and input leading up to and

during the team visit;

2.  Explain how SDAT is a valuable next step after R/UDAT, in which the community participated in 2002;3.  Maintain momentum for citizens to follow through on the SDAT recommendations.

Strategies for marketing the SDAT planning process will include:

•  Interviews with and feature stories by local media

o  Daily State Journal-Register newspaper

o  Weekly Illinois Times newspaper

o  Monthly Springfield Business Journal newspaper

o  Monthly Springfield Scene and Springfield's Own magazines

o  Radio groups Neuhoff, Capitol, Midwest and WUIS 91.9 (NPR)

o Television stations WICS/ABC, WAND/NBC, WCIA/CBS, WSEC/PBS

•  Speaking engagements at local organizations such as hospitals, Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, Sierra

Club, Lincoln Presidential volunteers, etc.

•  Posters distributed in downtown

•  Flyers/information distributed to District 186, churches, neighborhood associations, City Water Light

and Power (CWLP) newsletter (water/electric bills)

•  Creation of web site with newsletter sign-up

•  Social media including Facebook and Twitter

•  Response methods including email address, online survey and dedicated phone number

The Communications team will include:

•  Charles Joseph Pell, AIA Co-Chair, who has experience talking to the media on a variety of civic and

professional issues;

•  Lisa Stott, Co-Chair, who oversees Marketing for the state's economic development agency;

•  Amber Sabin, spokesperson for the city's utility company, CWLP, as well as the mayor's initiative,

Springfield Green;

•  Scott Troehler, who leads video production at the public television station WSEC and maintains social

media accounts for several city organizations; and

•  David Earhart, who oversees Marketing for the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce.

A full-fledged communications calendar will be put in place once the visit timeline is finalized.

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SDAT Project Timeline

•  Preliminary Assessment Team Visit - March 2012

•  SDAT Visit - April 2012

•  Follow-up to SDAT; Final Report - June 2012

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Community Partnerships and Support 

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Supplemental Documents

Existing and Past Planning Documents

These studies and planning documents are available upon request. (SSCRPC is the acronym for the Springfield-

Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission.)

•  Current-Neighborhood of Hope

•  2011-Railroad Corridor Tier 2 Study by Hanson PSI•  2011-Springfield Downtown Parking Survey by SSCRPC for Springfield Area Transportation Study

(SATS)

•  2011-Long Range Transportation Plan by SSCRPC for SATS

•  2011-Maturing of Illinois Initiative - Springfield by SSCRPC for Area Agency on Aging (among other

things this study looked at pedestrian movement and barriers in identified census tracts)

•  2011- Bicycle and Pedestrian Way Plan Draft by SSCRPC for SATS.

•  2010-Springfield Bicycle Initiative by Leadership Springfield & Bicycle Advisory Council

•  2010-Enos Park Neighborhood Master Plan by Mansur & Lakota

•  2010-MacArthur Boulevard Master Plan by Lakota for SSCRPC

•  2010-National Park Service's Draft General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for the

Lincoln Home National Historic Site

•  2010-Chamber/City/County-Strategic Plan by Market Street (updated May 2011)

•  2010-Economic Corridor and Freight Study by Hanson for SSCRPC

•  2009-Springfield Developer’s Guide by DSI & CREN

•  2009- Springfield Mass Transit District (SMTD) Study by Perteet, Inc.

•  2009-AIA 150 – Blueprint for Springfield: Designing the Future of the Historic Downtown of Illinois’

Capital City by AIA with U of I School of Architecture

•  2008-Prairie Capital Convention Center (PCCC) Report by C.H. Johnson Consulting, Inc.

•  2005-Mid-Illinois Medical District Master Plan by RTKL

•  2002-Current-Eastside Neighborhood Redevelopment Plan by PGAV

•  2002-R/UDAT-Revitalization of Downtown and Connected Neighborhoods by AIA team

•  2000-Springfield Comprehensive Plan 2020

Relevant News Articles

  http://www.sj-r.com/business/x219207891/President-Lincoln-Hotel-seeks-that-wow-effect 

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x27450690/Tiny-park-provides-mini-oasis-downtown 

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1852626653/Former-Franklin-Life-employees-to-hold-reunion 

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1638741251/Oxtoby-Preservation-good-for-development-too 

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x289833160/Follow-up-file-Plans-to-demolish-Stratton-

Building-on-hold 

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x911396437/4th-Monroe-plans-depend-on-results-of-study   http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1764486901/North-side-of-Old-Capitol-Plaza-fills-in-finally 

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x910594823/Downtown

 

-restaurants-cope-with-loss-of-state-

workers

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x386669719/Tim-Landis-Downtown

 

-preservation-fund-

nearing-20-000-goal

  http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1852605115/Health-care-helps-Springfield-incomes-grow 

  http://www.springfield.il.us/HighSpeedRail/Index.htm