We’ve heard – and seen a lot – of the construction underway at the former Eurasia/future no. 246 space on Ponce lately, but not much so much blogoverse chatter about the coming Fox Bros.’ Tex Mex Cantina coming to the old Natalie’s Fish House location.

Well, here’s a pic they posted of their bar-area on Twitter yesterday.

h/t: Omnivore

CANDLER PARK!!! (Shakes fists at the sky)

After taking back the top spot in the “neighborhood challenge” during last year’s ING Marathon, Decatur again must bow to its formidable in-town rival: the dreadfully motivated “Candler Park”.  From the Publix Marathon website…

2011 NEIGHBORHOOD CHALLENGE WINNERS ARE:

Division 1 – Marathon/Half Marathon Course

1st Place – $1,500 – Fourth Ward Neighbors/4th & SAND

2nd Place – $1,000 – Poncey-Highland Neighborhood Association

Division 2 – Marathon Course

1st Place – $1,500 – Candler Park Neighborhood Organization

2nd Place – $1,000 – City of Decatur

But seriously, congrats to the Candler Park folks and to Decatur for bringing home $1,000!  As mentioned on The Decatur Minute, this cool G will go towards the city’s “Walk There, Decatur!” program.

h/t: Patch

Five Points MARTA Station, Atlanta GA (pic submitted by Stephanie)

Over on Fresh Loaf, Thomas Wheatley rightly points out that the brand-new census maps put up on the New York Times website are a total time-suck.

Zoom into Decatur’s city limits and check out how the city’s population has changed in the past 10 years.  From a look at changes in the city’stotal population #s (map above), to racial make-up, to density, to vacant housing, the map tells a not-so-surprising story about Decatur over the past 10 years.

As you can see from all the blue in the map above, populations grew in each of Decatur’s four census tracks except for what can loosely be described as the southeast Winnona Park tract.  The largest growth (+10% to 20%) was seen up in the northeast tract.

The largest change in racial make-up, not surprisingly, was seen in the southeast Oakhurst tract, with the white population more than doubling since 2000 (+113%) and the black population dropping 47%.

And when it comes to vacant housing, only the southwest Oakhurst tract had fewer vacant properties than it did in 2000.

Anyway, enough from me!  Check it out and let us know what else you find.

Feel free to use this post to make comments and ask questions about local issues not discussed here over the past week.

Comments close Monday.

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Register now at www.ocprace.com!  Oakhurst Cooperative Preschool is offering $2 off of 5K and phantom runner registrations for anyone who uses the coupon code DMETRO before Thursday, March 31th.  We also will pick one lucky Decatur Metro registrant and will refund their entry fee, so register now and treat your family to an unusual, fun, healthy, community-focused event!