(01-09-2021, 01:34 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(01-09-2021, 01:00 PM)mikesez Wrote: It's just not going to work.  It'll be The Landing except you won't be able to walk from there to Friendship Fountain anymore.

Not an attack on you at all but, this fatalistic attitude about downtown is part of the problem. 

People have resigned themselves from it and won't even consider patronizing new businesses that actually do open there.

I've posted about this before.
My attitude is not at all fatalistic.
There are huge opportunities to redevelop downtown. 
La Villa and Springfield could become safe nightlife districts with as little investment as some free surface parking lots and constant police presence. pick a couple of roads, and close them to cars every Friday and Saturday night, voila you have a bar district safe for pedestrians. Downtown workers can walk there after they get off work. Keep that going for a while, bars, coffee houses, tapa bars, and boutique movie theaters will come.
Now you can try that a lot J as well. But downtown workers can't walk there, and anyone trying to build new permanent structures around that area is going to have to do a whole lot of environmental remediation that would not be needed in  LaVilla or Springfield.

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