Jimmy Moses - Revision history

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 Rubbing salt into his wounds, on August 12, 2002, the [[Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality]] (ADEQ) filed suit against Pfeifer in U.S. District Court seeking to recover $400,000 in costs associated with the cleanup of hazardous diesel fuel which had leaked from underground tanks on Pfeifer's portion of the Clinton Library site. Pfeifer's attorney [[Christopher Parker]] argued that Pfeifer could not be charged for the cleanup as Pfeifer purchased the land well after the tanks had been abandoned. Parker further cited a signed agreement between ADEQ director [[Randall Mathis]] stipulating that cleanup costs would be paid out of the federal Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund. Pfeifer lost this battle too.
-The final controversy came when a companion structure to the historic passenger station, the [[Choctaw Freight Depot]], was razed by the [[Clinton Foundation]] on November 21, 2001. The depot had been constructed by freed African American sleeves under the direction of Charles W. Clark, owner of the Clark Pressed Brick Company in Malvern, and opened to deliveries in April 1900. The depot fell despite a three-month effort to save the historic structure led by preservationist Gregory Ferguson and Friends of the Choctaw Terminal. Activists complained that the Clinton Foundation and City of Little Rock had failed to fully comply with the spirit of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, which specifies a full site review where historic structures are adversely affected by projects funded with federal dollars. "While I was in the process of filling out my [legal challenge]," Ferguson said, "the demolition contractor's huge front-end loader machines were tearing out the heart of the Choctaw Freight Depot."
+The final controversy came when a companion structure to the historic passenger station, the [[Choctaw Freight Depot]], was razed by the [[Clinton Foundation]] on November 21, 2001. The depot had been constructed by freed African American slaves under the direction of Charles W. Clark, owner of the Clark Pressed Brick Company in Malvern, and opened to deliveries in April 1900. The depot fell despite a three-month effort to save the historic structure led by preservationist Gregory Ferguson and Friends of the Choctaw Terminal. Activists complained that the Clinton Foundation and City of Little Rock had failed to fully comply with the spirit of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, which specifies a full site review where historic structures are adversely affected by projects funded with federal dollars. "While I was in the process of filling out my [legal challenge]," Ferguson said, "the demolition contractor's huge front-end loader machines were tearing out the heart of the Choctaw Freight Depot."
 ====Stitching Together a Community====

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 *James A. Moses, "Assessing the Impact of Central Business District Redevelopment Organizations on Downtown: A Case Study of Little Rock Unlimited Progress, Inc.," M.A.U.R.P. thesis, University of Florida, 1978.
 *"Moses and Tucker; As In Little and Rock," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' November 11, 2006.
-"New Feeling of Excitement Evident in Town; Effort to Get LR Moving Again," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' August 5, 1990.
+*"New Feeling of Excitement Evident in Town; Effort to Get LR Moving Again," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' August 5, 1990.
 *Mark Oswald, "River Development Ideas Include High-Rise, Museum," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' June 1, 1983.
 *Jake Sandlin, "Riverfronts' Success Reflects 2 Cities' Work; Project Drew 175,000 in '97," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' May 26, 1998.

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 ====Early Life and Education====
-Moses hails from a pioneer Little Rock Jewish family. He attended [[Jefferson Elementary]] in the 1950s and graduated from [[Hall High School]]. In high school Moses worked at the family business, [[Moses Melody Shop]], a music and electronics store located on Main Street in downtown Little Rock. Moses Melody Shop had been established by his grandfather [[Alfred Moses]], but had by the 1960s passed into the hands of his father [[James Moses Sr.]] "As kids growing up in Little Rock some of my fondest memories are of [business associate] Wally [Allen] and I both working downtown on Main Street," remembered Moses. "We'd go eat lunch together. And one of our favorite things to do as kids was take the bus downtown. There used to be this great barbecue place called [[Tom and Andrew's]]. At 15 or 16, we'd always order a beer with our barbecue, but they'd never give us one. That was kind of the way we functioned back then. I think that even as kids, both of us working and hanging out on Main Street in downtown Little Rock had some lasting impact on both of us wanting to see great things happen for the city[.]"
+Moses hails from a pioneer Little Rock Jewish family. He attended [[Jefferson Elementary]] in the 1950s and graduated from [[Hall High School]]. In high school Moses worked at the family business, [[Moses Melody Shop]], a music and electronics store located on Main Street in downtown Little Rock. Moses Melody Shop had been established by his grandfather [[Alfred Moses]], but had by the 1960s passed into the hands of his father [[James Moses Sr.]] "As kids growing up in Little Rock some of my fondest memories are of [business associate] Wally [Allen] and I both working downtown on Main Street," remembered Moses. "We'd go eat lunch together. And one of our favorite things to do as kids was take the bus downtown. There used to be this great barbecue place called [[Tom and Andrew's Barbecue]]. At 15 or 16, we'd always order a beer with our barbecue, but they'd never give us one. That was kind of the way we functioned back then. I think that even as kids, both of us working and hanging out on Main Street in downtown Little Rock had some lasting impact on both of us wanting to see great things happen for the city[.]"
 After high school, Moses attended the then-all male Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Returning to Little Rock and Moses Melody Shop in 1971, Moses dedicated his spare time to a local association of downtown boosters and civic organizers known as [[Little Rock Unlimited Progress]]. Little Rock Unlimited Progress had been formed into 1970 to revive the prospects of downtown retailers. The group inherited the spirit of two prior failed downtown revitalization campaigns known as [[Main Street 1969 plan]], established in 1957, and the 1960s [[Capitol Place plan]]. Moses had followed the Capitol Place plan closely in high school. Capitol Place involved an underground plaza and parking ramp at the corner of Main Street and Capitol Avenue. Remembered Moses later, "I was fascinated. I lived and died that." The plan never materialized.

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 Over the past decade Jimmy Moses has begun to emphasize the positive aspects of past failures in urban renewal. For instance, between 1973 and 1997 district property owners pooled special annual assessments and gave out $50 million in loans for twenty-one startups and improvement projects. Approximately $750 million in new improvements came into the district, including the [[TCBY Tower]]. The District also approved the construction of two parking ramps, one bounded by Second, Main, Scott and Third streets, and the other encompassed by Sixth, Scott, Main and Seventh streets in the mid-1980s. "People are real quick to point to things that didn't work, but I see them as small steps that brought us to where we are today. When people look back at the 20th century, those projects - the malls, the parking lots - will be seen as things that helped bring about future development." But Moses also learned an important lesson: "Traditional retailing and downtown as we knew it was dead." Shoppers fled in their cars in droves for places like the new McCain Mall in North Little Rock. One by one retailers closed their doors or moved elsewhere: [[JCPenney]], [[Zale's]], [[Woolworth's]], [[Haverty's]], [[Stifft's Jewelry]], [[Baker's Shoes]], [[Mangle's]], [[Gold's House of Fashion]], and [[Kempner's Shoe Store]]. Even Moses Melody Shop could not escape the writing on the wall. Even old community pillars like [[Dillard's]] and [[M. M. Cohn]] would close their downtown department stores by 1990.
-These merchants represented only the latest wave in a long history of storefront closings along Main Street since the 1950s: [[Gus Blass Department Store]], [[Pfeifer's]] and the [[Pfeifer Home Center]], [[Walgreen's]], [[Sears Roebuck]], [[McLellan's]], [[Economy Drugstore]], [[Franke's]], [[Arkansas Carpet and Furniture]], [[Cave's Jewelers]], [[National Shirt Shop]], [[Worthen Bank]], [[Bauman's Men's Store]], [[Standard Luggage]], [[Allsopp and Chapple Bookstore]], the [[Center Theater]], and [[Lido Cafeteria]]. In 2005 Moses conceded that "Main Street is dead. It is dismal. I'm not trying to be a bad ambassador, but there's nothing for any group to come and regularly see or do." The exodus from downtown has now largely been staunched. "You used to hear all this down talk," Moses recapitulates. "'There's no place to park. Why are you throwing all that money away on downtown? You'll never get the Clinton library here. Who will build condos and live in downtown?'" But dreams die hard, and the urban core as a retailing mecca is a dream still deferred. Downtown now represents a new urban lifestyle choice, an upscale place to live and recreate. In other words, the legacy of Main Street has moved to [[President Clinton Avenue]].
+These merchants represented only the latest wave in a long history of storefront closings along Main Street since the 1950s: [[Gus Blass Department Store]], [[Pfeifer's]] and the [[Pfeifer Home Center]], [[Walgreen's]], [[Sears Roebuck]], [[McLellan's]], [[Economy Drugstore]], [[Franke's Cafeteria]], [[Arkansas Carpet and Furniture]], [[Cave's Jewelers]], [[National Shirt Shop]], [[Worthen Bank]], [[Bauman's Men's Store]], [[Standard Luggage]], [[Allsopp and Chapple Bookstore]], the [[Center Theater]], and [[Lido Cafeteria]]. In 2005 Moses conceded that "Main Street is dead. It is dismal. I'm not trying to be a bad ambassador, but there's nothing for any group to come and regularly see or do." The exodus from downtown has now largely been staunched. "You used to hear all this down talk," Moses recapitulates. "'There's no place to park. Why are you throwing all that money away on downtown? You'll never get the Clinton library here. Who will build condos and live in downtown?'" But dreams die hard, and the urban core as a retailing mecca is a dream still deferred. Downtown now represents a new urban lifestyle choice, an upscale place to live and recreate. In other words, the legacy of Main Street has moved to [[President Clinton Avenue]].
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 ====AMR Architects====
-Moses was lured back to Little Rock in 1978 by a job offer tendered by developer [[Tommy Hodges]] of [[Hodges, Vines, Fox, and Associates]]. Hodges assigned Moses the task of preparing urban plans for the revitalization of small Main Street communities like Crossett, Harrison, and Magnolia. These reports generally had no direct impact on the cities. But in 1981 he completed a report on his hometown called the "Downtown Little Rock Development Plan" in which he detailed several ways to bring back "a certain charm and character unique to the downtown." In the report he recommended a central market facility, new restaurants and bars, and a renewed emphasis on retailing.
+Moses was lured back to Little Rock in 1978 by a job offer tendered by developer [[Tommy Hodges]] of [[Hodges, Vines, Fox, and Associates]]. Hodges assigned Moses the task of preparing urban plans for the revitalization of small Main Street communities like Crossett, Harrison, and Magnolia. These reports generally had no direct impact on the cities. But in 1981 he completed a report on his hometown called the "Downtown Little Rock Development Plan" in which he detailed several ways to bring back "a certain charm and character unique to the downtown." In the report he recommended a central market facility, new restaurants and bars, and a renewed emphasis on retailing. Moses called for a co-development process. Rather than city assumption and assembly of parcels of land in revitalizing activities, and ''then'' calling in the developers, Moses advocated making developers part of the game from the point of feasibility analysis through financing and construction and marketing. Moses also advocated new and renewed partnerships between the [[Little Rock City Board of Directors]], the [[Little Rock Parking Authority]], the [[Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission]], the [[Little Rock Bureau for Visitors and Conventions]], the [[Little Rock Housing Authority]], the [[Little Rock City Beautiful Committee]], [[Central Arkansas Transit]], the [[Metrocentre Improvement District]], [[Quapaw Quarter Association]], and [[Little Rock Unlimited Progress]].
 On Tuesday evenings during the years he worked for Hodges Moses would get together over drinks with two architect friends [[John Allison]] and [[Rick Redden]]. "I guess there was sort of an attachment,"  remembered Redden of the informal group. "We were so naive. We were young. We thought about anything could happen." Invariably the discussions turned in the direction of forming a new company specializing in urban design and development. Remembered Moses later, "About the 11th or 12th month, one of us said, 'Drinking this Scotch is good, but we're going to turn into alcoholics. Maybe we better start a business or stop meeting like this.'"
-In 1982 the group agreed to form [[AMR Architects]]. Allison, Moses, and Redden envisioned a different kind of firm, one devoted to refurbishing existing building stock in the neglected downtown and managing these assets themselves. They also dreamed of a central farmer's market that would form the centerpiece of a new arts and entertainment district. Allison and Redden took on the primary roles of architects in the firm, and Moses accepted the duties related to promoting, leasing, and managing the projects as they developed.
+Changes in 1981 Federal tax laws which created investment credits for historic renovation projects focused their ambitions. Allison, Moses, and Redden began envisioning a different kind of firm, one devoted to rehabbing existing building stock in the neglected downtown and managing the refurbished assets themselves. They also dreamed of a central farmer's market that would form the centerpiece of a new arts and entertainment district. Allison and Redden took on the primary roles of architects in the firm, and Moses accepted the duties related to promoting, leasing, and managing the projects as they developed. In 1982 the group agreed to form [[AMR Architects]].
 The first project the new team tackled was the old [[Gans Building]] located at 217 West Second Street, which the three principals also used as their first office. The next project involved the rejuvenation of two buildings on East Markham Street into the [[Heritage Center East and West]]. Their plan involved renovation of two buildings and demolition of a building in between to create adjacent parking. The [[Department of Arkansas Heritage]] became the main tenant in Heritage Center East, and AMR Architects took over a top floor, sharing it with an apartment for Redden's family.
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 *Leroy Donald, "Excitement of Developers Builds Downtown, Along River Front," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' June 5, 1983.
 *Shareese Harold, "A Vision on the Riverfront," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' November 20, 1994.
 *Bill W. Hornaday, "LR Again Rolls the Dice: Downtown Revival $500 Million Price Tag on Main Street Plan a Hitch, and Developers Aren't on Same Page," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' May 2, 2005.
 *Edward Klump, "Builder Has High Hopes for New 14-Story Center," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' May 16, 2003.

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 *Edward Klump, "17-Story Residential Tower to Go Up in Downtown LR," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' October 29, 2004.
 *Philip Martin, "Water Grille Scores Beyond Expectations," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' October 15, 2004.
 *James A. Moses, "Assessing the Impact of Central Business District Redevelopment Organizations on Downtown: A Case Study of Little Rock Unlimited Progress, Inc.," M.A.U.R.P. thesis, University of Florida, 1978.
 *"Moses and Tucker; As In Little and Rock," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' November 11, 2006.

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 *Kyle Brazzel, "James A. Moses: Success Finally Came Downtown for Jimmy," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' October 21, 2001.
 *JoBeth Briton, "Project 2000 and the Diamond: A City Wrestles with its Future," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' July 1, 1991.
 *Elisa Crouch, "Developer Plans Hotel-Office-Condo Tower for River Market," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' October 23, 2002.
 *Elisa Crouch, "Like Rip van Winkle, Downtown Waking Up," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' April 19, 2001.
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 *Mark Oswald, "River Development Ideas Include High-Rise, Museum," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' June 1, 1983.
 *Jake Sandlin, "Riverfronts' Success Reflects 2 Cities' Work; Project Drew 175,000 in '97," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' May 26, 1998.
 *Laura Stevens, "New $80 Million Complex to Add to Downtown Living," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' November 4, 2006.
 *Laura Stevens, "Rising to a Towering Task: Groundbreaking Condo Project was a Tall Order," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' July 15, 2007.