Ewing reminded the packed room that if Iron Gate had intended to keep the project under the radar, as some people have suggested, it could have simply rezoned the property to commercial.
Iron Gate executive director Connie Cronley and Leanne Benton, with the Pearl District Association, discuss the possibility of the Iron Gate moving from its current downtown location.
I journeyed over to Iron Gate on Friday morning to ask the patrons there what they thought would happen if the soup kitchen moved about a mile east.
Despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the people at Tuesday’s meeting stood to say they wanted the hearing to go on as scheduled, board members had compelling reasons to continue the case to Sept. 8.
The board will be asked to resolve what is the city’s biggest development controversy: whether Iron Gate should be allowed to move its soup kitchen to the southwest corner of Third Street and Peoria Avenue in the Pearl District.
The Grand River Dam Authority will review the name lake named in honor of one of the founding members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Gatesway quickly fell from steady financial footing and tumbled into debts so unmanageable its leaders began frantically liquidating assets, laying off employees and picking off clients they deemed “unprofitable” just to pay its bills.
Records show the operators of Happiness is a Learning Center’s Vinita facility were investigated for allegations of child molestation at a Tulsa daycare facility they operated in the late 1980s. Parents sued the operators, alleging negligence.
