Tag: Downtown Billings
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HUB Drop-In Center in Downtown Billings to Close
The HUB Drop-In Center in Downtown Billings with be closing its doors, effective October 1. The Board of Directors for the Mental Health Center made the difficult decision at its July meeting, after months of serious consideration of multiple alternatives. The decision to close The HUB allows the Mental Health Center to maintain all other…
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Downtown Business Owners Want to Form a New TID
A group of property owners in the west end of downtown Billings want to create a new tax improvement district. The proposed boundaries of the new district would be Division Street, 1st Avenue North and North 31st The pros and cons and options available to them was explained to a gathering of some 30 people…
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Buffalo Block at the Rex Opens
Buffalo Block Prime Steakhouse at the Rex opened on October 1 as Billings’ newest first class restaurant. Since the closure of the Rex Restaurant about a year -and -a -half ago, Billings has been closely watching and wondering what would emerge from one of the city’s most popular haunts. When news was announced that the…
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Downtown Meeting to Put Public Safety at Forefront
It’s been a year since Billings business people and property owners packed the house at a public meeting about what can be done to address a growing problem in the city regarding street dwellers, including homeless people, substance abusers, vagrants, and partiers, who overstay their welcome. Since then, while there have been some steps forward…