Trickle-Down Urbanism and Jax

[Bill Hoff]

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

[thelakelander]

LOL, those are fighting words around here!

[CityLife]

The hypothesis may well be right, but the author did an atrocious job of providing any compelling data.

[bl8jaxnative]

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.

[marcuscnelson]

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...

[Kerry]

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.