Downtown Springfied

The business is open for another season, despite ongoing flooding issues and efforts by the City of Springfield to purchase the building for a flood control project.

The mural festival, Oct. 3 and 4, celebrates the integration of art, music, tech and culture..

The Springfield Regional Arts Council hosts the First Friday Art walk on the first Friday evening of each month.

The Saint Patrick’s Day Parade returns to Downtown Springfield and Commercial Street.

Plans for the so-called daylighting of Jordan Creek have been in the works since at least 2019. After some delays during the pandemic, City Council has resumed work on the project.

Eminent domain would allow the city to force a sale of the Hotel of Terror property, a Halloween destination downtown since the late 1970s. The city wants the Hotel of Terror location to become part of plans to improve the Jordan Creek area, as a way of drawing more investment downtown.

Downtown’s Hotel of Terror has been one of Springfield’s most beloved Halloween attractions since 1978. But now the building stands in the way of government plans to spiff up the Jordan Creek area.

City officials and community residents have been working on Forward SGF since 2019.

The state of Missouri is hoping to create new jobs and revitalize communities by identifying new, so-called “Opportunity Zones.”Missouri’s Department of…

The Hotel Vandivort first opened its doors in downtown Springfield in the summer of 2015. Now, almost three years later, the owners say it’s time to…