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Joseph (Joe) Hakan

Joe Hakan came to work for UNC as an engineering planner after Navy service and study at Duke, contributing to Manning Drive and the Morehead Sundial. He left the University in 1963 and founded the design firm Hakan/Corley, which designed the Smith Center. He died at his Chapel Hill home in March 2006, aged 80.

Source: Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Joe Hakan, 80, engineer, March 20, 2006, p. 14

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StorylineThe Downtown Commission, the downtown trolleys and Streetscape, 1988–19941988–1994 · 29 events · The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Downtown Commission, incorporated in October 1988 with money from both towns, the University and businesses, hired its first directors, brought back sidewalk vendors and ordered two trolleys. Chapel Hill taxed its downtown merchants to support it in 1989, but Carrboro's aldermen refused money and a tax district. The trolleys began running in Chapel Hill on Labor Day 1989 and first reached Carrboro that December on runs paid for by Carr Mill Mall's owners. After private donations dried up, the commission laid off its two paid staff members in March 1991 and became a volunteer group, and in April 1992 Mayor Ken Broun revived its idle plan committee to draw up a downtown plan. In 1994 the council kept the trolleys for another year while the commission tried to raise ridership, and the town began Streetscape, a $4.8 million plan for downtown sidewalks, lights and buried wires, with a pilot block on West Franklin Street.

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  1. UNC trustees add a movable acoustical roof liner to the planned student activities center The Board of Trustees approved a $105,000 movable acoustical liner for the roof of the proposed student activities center south of Hinton James dormitory, so that rock concerts held there would meet the noise limits in the special use permit the Chapel Hill Town Council had granted. The liner kept the translucent fabric roof of the original design for ordinary events. People: Joseph (Joe) Hakan Place: Site south of Hinton James Residence Hall, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 1980, p. 1
  2. Estes Drive and Burlage Circle residents reach an agreement with Hakan-Corley over the Siena Hotel Attorney Grainger Barrett announced an agreement between residents of the Burlage Circle and Estes Drive neighborhood and developer Hakan-Corley and Associates over the hotel planned for the former Brady's restaurant site. Place: East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Hakan, Grainger Barrett · Also mentions: Estes DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: Siena Hotel neighborhood agreement, February 24, 1986, p. 5
  3. The Siena Hotel prepares to open on East Franklin Street The 80-room Siena Hotel, built by the Siena Partnership of Joe Hakan and Sam Longiotti as part of a nine-acre development with the Chapel Hill Center, was scheduled to open in late October 1987. Place: 1500 block of East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Hakan, Sam LongiottiSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: New Siena Hotel to offer Italian-style hospitality, September 29, 1987, p. 4 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 30, 1987, p. 9; The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1987, p. 4
  4. Downtown Commission asks for a special tax district for downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro Downtown Commission president Joe Hakan asked the Chapel Hill Town Council for a special service district taxing downtown property 7 cents per $100 to help fund the commission and a free downtown trolley. The council later voted the district down. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe HakanSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: downtown tax district item, February 14, 1989, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 5, 1988, p. 5
  5. Johnson-Strowd-Ward Furniture leaves Franklin Street for Timberlyne Shopping Center Johnson-Strowd-Ward Furniture Co., on Franklin Street for 43 years, moved to Timberlyne Shopping Center on Weaver Dairy Road after the owners of its building decided to sell, one of several businesses the Daily Tar Heel reported leaving downtown over high rents and scarce parking. Downtown Commission president Joseph Hakan said the commission was trying to stop the movement away from Franklin Street. People: Joseph (Joe) Hakan Place: Franklin Street and Timberlyne Shopping Center, Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Timberlyne Shopping Center, Franklin Street, Weaver Dairy RoadSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 13, 1989, p. 5
  6. Joe Hakan becomes chairman of the chamber of commerce Joe Hakan became chairman of the chamber's board of directors and led it out of a budget deficit, cutting salaries and staff and hiring a lower-paid director. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe HakanSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: chamber of commerce item, June 4, 1992, p. 4

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Oral history interview with Joseph Hakan, 2002 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

2002

Engineer, planner and developer Joseph (Joe) Hakan, who worked for UNC and in private practice in Chapel Hill, interviewed by Doug Eyre on 21 January 2002. Oral history cassette from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.

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