Hotwire brings Wi-Fi to Bell Tower Green, will provide free internet during Cheerwine Festival
SALISBURY — Bell Tower Green is now online. Hotwire Communications has launched a free public Wi-Fi system in the downtown park, allowing residents to access the internet from their phones or laptops while spending time at Bell Tower Green. Hotwire entered into a public-private partnership with the city of Salisbury in 2018 to manage the…
Read MoreEarth Day Jam brings artists, vendors to Bell Tower Green
SALISBURY — Bell Tower Green was taken over by crowds on Saturday to benefit a local nonprofit with green goals of its own. Happy Roots’ Earth Day Jam was on hiatus for the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but with activities reopened across the state and a new venue in the middle of…
Read MoreStudents from St. John’s Lutheran Church plant kindness stones in Bell Tower Green
SALISBURY — Bell Tower Green gained 34 stones from some kids with some kind words Monday morning. Students in St. John’s Lutheran Church’s pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs made the short trip across the street to the park with the help of a pair of Salisbury police officers and gathered on the amphitheater stage for a…
Read MoreOfficials say newly opened Bell Tower Green Park is critical to city’s future
SALISBURY — When Mayor Karen Alexander and Dyke Messinger looked out at the crowd of people in Bell Tower Green Park on Friday, they saw more than a place for people gather. “This park is the center of all the critical building blocks of a successful, diverse, collaborative city that values the many gifts and…
Read MoreSalisbury’s new Bell Tower Green Park to open on October 1st
SALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) – Bell Tower Green, Inc. and the City of Salisbury are excited to jointly announce the opening of Bell Tower Green Park this Friday, Oct. 1, at 5 p.m. After more than two years of construction, and four years of private fundraising and planning, the downtown park will finally be accessible to…
Read MoreCOVID-19 cancels Pops at the Post, Bell Tower Green Park grand opening
SALISBURY — Organizers of Pops at the Post and planners for Bell Tower Green’s grand opening on Wednesday announced the cancellation of both events. Worsening COVID-19 metrics are to blame for the cancellations. Pops at the Post is a free outdoor concert held annually next to the Salisbury Post. The Salisbury Symphony gathers under the…
Read MoreAsk Us: How was Bell Tower Green Park funded?
While the construction of Bell Tower Green Park was no cheap matter, the project’s final estimated cost of $13 million will be almost entirely privately funded. The park, which transformed a block of land between West Innes, South Church, West Fisher and South Jackson streets, is in its final days of construction. A grand opening…
Read MoreBell Tower Green Park in sight of fundraising goal
SALISBURY — While it has reduced its fundraising goal because of COVID-19, Bell Tower Green Park is now $600,000 shy of having enough money to complete the project. In a letter to donors last week, Bell Tower Green President Dyke Messinger said 315 families or individuals have donated about $11.37 million to the downtown park’s…
Read MoreSalisbury Kiwanis Club donates $100,000 to Bell Tower Green
SALISBURY — Saying the Kiwanis Club of Salisbury wanted to have a big impact, President Glenn Taylor on Friday presented Bell Tower Green park representatives with a check for $100,000. The money comes from the 2015 sale of the Kiwanis Camp property to the Yadkin Path Montessori School. Representatives of Bell Tower Green said the money…
Read MoreF&M celebrates legacy in community with $110,000 total gift to Bell Tower Green
SALISBURY — It was 110 years ago when some community-minded folks in eastern Rowan County got together to establish a bank, hoping it would foster economic development and promote a higher quality of life. Shares were sold that year, and the first Farmers and Merchants Bank — today’s F&M Bank — opened in Granite Quarry.…
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