{"id":243932,"date":"2010-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/new-growth-brings-energy-to-hillcrest\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T07:00:00","slug":"new-growth-brings-energy-to-hillcrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/new-growth-brings-energy-to-hillcrest\/","title":{"rendered":"New growth brings energy to Hillcrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Benjamin Nicholls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hillcrest Business Improvement Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our neighborhood marketing meeting begins each month with a standing agenda item, which is formally referred to as \u201ccommunity news,\u201d and informally known as \u201cHillcrest gossip.\u201d Predictably, anything and everything is discussed with this agenda item; we chat about what businesses are officially coming, what businesses are officially going, and we keep the gossip fresh with rumors of both. It\u2019s our unique take on kicking off a vibrant marketing session where we\u2019ll inevitably dream up something fabulous to help keep those businesses coming. When tapping into the larger wire this past month, things were seemingly dour as the closures of Pomegranate, Kemo Sabe and Bite became the focus of Hillcrest news.<\/p>\n<p>When neighborhood businesses we love close their doors, it\u2019s easy to overlook the boom of new growth in Hillcrest. For every Hillcrest business that\u2019s become a casualty of the U.S. economy, another business has taken its place. Take Fifth Avenue, for example: There is a bubbling new energy just south of Robinson, where R Gang Eatery opened with rave reviews and the new Busalacchi\u2019s is nearing completion. These new gems will join current hot spots Pappalecco, The Tractor Room, Deli Llama and Babycakes\u2019 brand-new \u201cBaby Bar\u201d as desirable restaurant destinations. Right around the corner, you\u2019ll find the birth of Burger Lounge\u2019s newest location on Fourth Avenue. And make your way just down the street to shop at the new Artist Craftsman and Supply or head over to Pretty Please boutique at the Uptown Center.<\/p>\n<p>And in the meantime, Hillcrest\u2019s nightlife can start preparing for the brand new club \u201cEden,\u201d which is taking over the old Universal space on the corner of University and Tenth avenues. \u00a0Frankly, when Universal closed, I feared that space would be unoccupied for years\u2014and now, less than a year later, a new entrepreneur is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Hillcrest.<\/p>\n<p>Hillcrest has never been a neighborhood that feared the sky was falling. At our marketing meetings we\u2019re keeping our ears tuned in to exciting neighborhood rumors. A few that have come our way thus far are a streetcar from downtown to Hillcrest, a coordinated parking validation program, the redevelopment of Hillcrest\u2019s DMV into an exciting mixed-use project, and a colorful \u201cShop Hillcrest for the Holidays\u201d campaign. Folks, <em>this<\/em> is the season to get excited about Hillcrest\u2014after all, rumor has it, the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Benjamin Nicholls is the executive director of the Hillcrest Business Improvement Association.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Nicholls Hillcrest Business Improvement Association Our neighborhood marketing meeting begins each month with a standing agenda item, which is formally referred to as \u201ccommunity news,\u201d and informally known as \u201cHillcrest gossip.\u201d Predictably, anything and everything is discussed with this agenda item; we chat about what businesses are officially coming, what businesses are officially [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1331,"featured_media":243931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"New growth brings energy to Hillcrest","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11593,11552,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}