Downtown Springfied

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…

After 20 years of sitting vacant and more than two years of renovations, the old Heer’s Building on the northwest corner of Park Central Square re-opened…