NAIOP Announces Downtown Revitalization Platform

[Captain Zissou]

Yawn.  Pretty much the same thing they said years ago.  We need action and implementation, not more BS from the talking heads.

wait...is cline turniong into CS Foltz?

Please NO

[Ocklawaha]

OCKLAWAHA

[mtraininjax]

We should put those cops on bicycles and maybe horses.

Bicycles would be good. A few cops could use a bit more exercise. I have seen horses downtown, but since our illustrious Mayor decided to put that ugly blob of a courthouse in the middle of Monroe, it makes it a bit harder for the horse patrol to make it straight into downtown from the horse stables at Monroe and I-95.

His tombstone will read, "8 years of frozen thinking"

[dougskiles]

What better way is there to include the skyway in all of these plans?

I'm wondering the same thing.  It continues to represent to me the singular focus that our community has on automobiles.  I will admit that I am probably too singularly focused on transit, but to say nothing at all about how transit can be a part of the downtown solution is disappointing.

If there is one reason above all others that we have failed to revitalize downtown, I believe it is because we keep applying suburban solutions.  In that respect, we have succeded.  There are very few people walking around and vast expanses of surface parking lots.

[thelakelander]

Great point!  I agree.  When you apply suburban based solutions to urban revitalization, you can create situations where walkability and vibrancy still decline despite public investment of over a billion within the last couple of decades.

[urbaknight]

OCKLAWAHA

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