Short article that speaks to the silver bullet development plans in Downtown Jax.
"As much as officials try to convince us otherwise, large-scale entertainment complexes typically don't deliver on the promise of creating economic vibrancy. Long term, they fill the pockets of a few and often take more money out of the community than they inject into it."
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/30/the-false-promise-of-trickle-down-urbanism
LOL, those are fighting words around here!
The hypothesis may well be right, but the author did an atrocious job of providing any compelling data.
Politicians love to constantly talk about hitting big time home runs. What we need are small, incremental changes. They add up big time a la compound interest.
We shouldn't be opposed to entertainment districts. A lot of them like Charlotte's work quite well both in activity and isolating a lot of late-night noise to a small part of the city.
Quote from: bl8jaxnative on April 08, 2019, 10:16:18 AM
Politicians love to constantly talk about hitting big time home runs. What we need are small, incremental changes. They add up big time a la compound interest.
We shouldn't be opposed to entertainment districts. A lot of them like Charlotte's work quite well both in activity and isolating a lot of late-night noise to a small part of the city.
Funny you mention that... (https://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,35452.msg491030/topicseen.html#new)
This is Moneyball urban style. We don't need homeruns. We just need to get on base. A hit, an error, a walk, hit by wild pitch, at this point it doesn't matter.