(03-01-2020, 07:03 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(03-01-2020, 04:18 PM)DragonFury Wrote: Jacksonville citizens: Downtown is dead and boring. No one lives there, no one goes there.

Investor: I want to invest in downtown.

Jacksonville citizens: Why bother? It's going to fail anyway.

Investor: I'll take my money elsewhere then.

Jacksonville citizens: Downtown is dead and boring. No one lives there, no one goes there.

So downtown potential investors do their due diligence based on message board feedback? Sound like horrible investors.

His post said nothing about a message board, and it does seem to represent a giant swath of opinion from residents of Jacksonville. I've heard some similar refrain of "people aren't ever going to frequent downtown" from people I know and meet at the beach, on the southside, in mandarin and elsewhere.  

I think it's real a shame that folks aren't supportive of the idea of a vital downtown riverfront.

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