Performance Center design team begins analysis
Mountain Xpress, 28 May 2010
...the Performance Center's design team met in Asheville....Included in the design team's schedule was a joint meeting with a task force of the Asheville Design Center...."The future Performance Center expects to be a key community player in the revitalization of this historically significant neighborhood as well as a key cultural economic generator..."

Appreciating a local treasure: Two views of the Basilica of St. Lawrence
Mountain Xpress, 22 March 2010
A new UNCA RENCI-developed model of Haywood Street and the Civic Center/Basilica of St. Lawrence Plaza was unveiled at a meeting at the Asheville Design Center....3D animation of a portion of Haywood Street that....The city wants to redevelop.

Asheville Design Center update on I-26 talks with DOT
Mountain Xpress, 11 March 2010
The Asheville Design Center recently met with the N.C. Department of Transportation to discuss progress on the I-26 connector. The group emerged with news....a shortened, less expensive bridge and the news that noise studies indicates 4B will be quieter than other plans.

Asheville Design Center to assist with Asheville Performance Center planning
Mountain Xpress, 18 February 2010
"The Performance Center with other projects now in planning will create exciting opportunities for sustainable growth and increased livability in Asheville."...ADC will work closely with William Rawn Associates, CJMW and other Performance Center design team members.

I-26 connector alternative 4B gets back to its roots
Mountain Xpress, 28 October 2009
The North Carolina Department of Transportation....says it will reconsider a design that has I-26 back beneath Patton...."the DOT is certainly working with us to make 4B the best it can be"...The recent change, may help....give the design even more momentum.

I-26 construction delayed a year; Design Center says it was shut out of decision
Mountain Xpress, 22 April 2009
The North Carolina Department of Transportation has decided to push back construction of the Interstate 26 connector by one year—until 2014....to further study the highway's impacts on the area.

Asheville’s bridge to the future?
Mountain Xpress 11 July 2007
...a glimpse of the Asheville Design Center’s latest ideas for an I-26/I-240 bridge...other states have often been surprised to discover that more elegant designs can achieve results that are cheaper over time because innovative engineering can result in lower maintenance costs.

It’s still standing: DOT resists alternative plan for I-26
Mountain Xpress 29 June 2007
...at its June 27 meeting, Council was not yet ready to give up hope on the plan that was devised by the volunteer efforts of local architects and engineers.

Design group only interested in what is best for Asheville
A recent letter in the AC-T suggested that only civil engineers should be permitted to plan for the I-26 connector project. As a planner and as a member of the Asheville Design Center group looking at the NCDOT proposals, I’d like to respond to this letter.

AIA just one of many voices in I-26 routing process
Regarding the letter, “Civil Engineers ought to be making decisions on I-26,” (AC-T, Dec. 3): The chosen northern entry route for I-26 and the design of the new bridge over the French Broad River will shape the look and growth of Asheville for many decades.

Civil engineers ought to be making decisions on I-26
...a group not qualified in building bridges and highways is trying to tell the experts how to do their job.

Group may ask state to ease I-40 clog
A regional transportation board could ask the state to take a second look at a problem portion of interstate that gridlocks hundreds of drivers