{"id":585479,"date":"2017-02-08T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=585479"},"modified":"2017-02-09T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:45:48","slug":"heart-of-tyler-holds-annual-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=585479","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Tyler Holds Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/tyler-mainstreet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/tyler-mainstreet-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-585483\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The winners of this year&#8217;s Brick Award for contributions to downtown Tyler are Rebecca Ballard and Crysti LaRocca. They&#8217;re described by outgoing Heart of Tyler President Brooke Droptini as the &#8220;creative minds&#8221; behind the organization&#8217;s biggest fundraiser, Black Tie Bingo.  The award announcement was made at the annual meeting of Heart of Tyler, the city&#8217;s downtown revitalization group.  The gathering was held at the new Innovation Pipeline, a facility for budding entrepreneurs. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, attendees received an update on downtown&#8217;s past year and what lies ahead in 2017.  Speakers focused on such topics as new businesses and the wealth of ongoing activities.  Also earning a mention: continuing efforts in historic preservation and adaptive re-use of old downtown facilities, including the site of the annual meeting.  Other recognitions included a tip of the hat to Butler Architectural Group and the People&#8217;s Petroleum Building, which were recently honored by the Texas Downtown Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The winners of this year&#8217;s Brick Award for contributions to downtown Tyler are Rebecca Ballard and Crysti LaRocca. They&#8217;re described by outgoing Heart of Tyler President Brooke Droptini as the &#8220;creative minds&#8221; behind the organization&#8217;s biggest fundraiser, Black Tie Bingo. The award announcement was made at the annual meeting of Heart of Tyler, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=585479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heart of Tyler Holds Annual Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":585483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 14:07:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585484,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585479\/revisions\/585484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/585483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}