All hands on deck for Streetscape Project

Darin Lowery, who is a MOB member, and community volunteer, schepping pavers.

By: Linda Gross The streetscaping project taking place on the north end of Broad Street had a “Paver Party” this weekend. Over thirty volunteers showed up in the early, frosty hours of the morning to lay thousands of concrete pavers which will create a broad expanse of pedestrian-friendly space which the City will beable to [...]

It's a Paver Party for Broad street

Spreading gravel to complete streetscaping on Broadstreet

The Historic Downtown District of Globe and the City will be completing the final stages of a major streetscaping project on the north end of Broad street this month. The monies came through a $98,000 grant tagged specifically for this type of improvement which took 2 years to move through the approval process. It was [...]

Trees get planted on Broad Street

It took men and machinery to plant several mature trees reaching 10-15ft each in the planters on N Broad Street

Last week a variety of deciduous and non-deciduous trees were planted along the newly developed pedestrian-way on North Broad Street. The on going street enhancements are part of a collaborative project involving the City of Globe, Historic Globe Main Street Program, Cobre Valley Center for the Arts, the Globe Tree Committe and the group which [...]

Globe’s Main Street MOB is on the move

Downtown Globe  photo by: Deborah Yerkovich

Story by: Darin Lowery Note: The local committee, MOB (My Own Back Yard) was formed last February as one of many committees tasked with looking into ways to improve Globe’s Downtown district. Headed up by Mayor Fernando Shipley, it includes City Building Inspector Chris Collopy, City Manager Kane Graves, Local Downtown Merchants Ed Gardea of [...]