(04-06-2022, 11:33 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(04-06-2022, 11:23 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: I was never good at Wheel of Fortune. Can I buy a vowel?

It's an acronym but I shall say no more. lol.

It's pretty obvious... I mean they've held back downtown my whole life.

There have probably been some instances, but for 40 years? come on man. It couldn't be that the area is crime ridden after dark, that City Council voted against Lot J, that the Shipyards stagnated for years, that major corporations and small businesses for years didn't want to centralize there, that City Planning/City Council bungled attempt after attempt to revitalize downtown but were derailed either by greed or stupidity, and all due to a single institution? I guess they were responsible for the demise of the Landing as well. If anything, that one institution helped property values downtown by buying up and renovating abandoned pieces of [BLEEP] buildings that would have otherwise been rotting crack houses. One institution held back an entire downtown from developing, an institution that is now selling 9 of the 10 buildings they currently own? How influential could they even be? As I've posted in other threads before, I had a front row seat watching this City Planning debacle for 16 years. Sounds more like you are setting up a strawman. Grinding personal axes, perhaps?

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