The views here can’t be beat because the restaurant is located right on the river—a walkway over the water leads you right to the dining room.
—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
1 June 2025
The Orioles are back on the field, newly aspiring joggers crowd the park walkways that are otherwise barren, and old heads are breaking out their three-wheeled Slingshots again, playing Jeezy so loud that windowpanes tremble.
Scanners sit between some of the 284 colonnades built in the 1600s, a necessary but time consuming hold up for those waiting to get into the square.
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NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
The latest proposal involves four buildings: a four-plex on Jefferson Street from 1909, a house on Summit Street from 1905, and two century-old colonnades on Summit Street.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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