Our downtown already has tons of options to draw people via food or leisure: MOCA, Hemming Park, Chamblains, Sweet Pete's, the River Walk including the new Southbank that is about to be done, Chomp Chomp, Art Walk, The Volstead, all of The Elbow, The Candy Apple Cafe, the Florida Theatre,  etc

 

And then there are all of the projects in progress now: The Bostwick building turning into The Cowford, The Marble Bank turning into the Bullbriar, Super food Truck moving in on Laura, the Barnett Building and Laura Apartments getting renovated, the new Dupont nonprofit center, Levels, etc

 

Plus all of the new Brooklyn area that is getting close to being ready, and the new Intuition location by the stadium

 

Downtown is looking pretty good to me

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