Business is booming in Newport

New residential developments, new retail space, new life on the riverfront -- it's all happening in Newport, says City Manager Tom Fromme: 

"Newport is where it’s happening. Everything is happening in Newport.”
 

... This wasn't spin from a city administration urging people just to believe that the fabric of a city was changing for the better. In his 2013 year-in-review presentation, Fromme had proof on his side just outside the windows of the city building. Monmouth Street is alive and well and getting better with every passing day.
 
In the coming months, Monmouth Row, a sprawling $10 million development by Towne Properties and Carlisle Development, will welcome tenants to its 100-plus units, an immediate boost of foot traffic to the growing number of businesses on the historic downtown street, and mere steps from the city's landmark Newport on the Levee.
 
“They’re going to town there,” Fromme said of the pace of the development's construction. An entire block was razed to make way for Monmouth Row on the 400 block, a new project designed to blend in with this old-style architecture of the city's urban core. "It’s a great addition. You’re going to get a significant ripple effect if businesses take advantage of that."

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