Downtown revitilization
I have recently been involved in a class where I have had the opportunity of learning about the downtown area as well as the revitalization projects that are currently underway. My classmates and I have had several meetings with owners of downtown properties and owners of businesses in the area. What many of them have said is that they feel the key to the revitalization is to have people living in the area and I agree. Once the downtown area becomes populated with residents naturally the people will be around the mall area and purchase because they live there and it is convenient. This idea will be able to keep businesses open past 5 years. Thereafter, you can expect than in a more lively area you will have people whom work there remain there after a shift. These residents will generally spend most of their time and money in a two mile radius of their residence.
In addition I believe that the way to start this is by allowing multi-level properties to have a residential component on the top levels and retail on the bottom level. If residents can keep the retail stores open with their purchases. The opportunity exists that others might hang out after they get off of work. As residents start to occupy the downtown area and support the local businesses then it will make it more attractive for others to move to the downtown area. Until the downtown area has people living in the area it will be difficult for any type of sustainable revitalization efforts.
you could do this....
"you wanna do a study find some one who lived at the Townhouse and ask them what happened to the major plans for downtown living in the late 1960s?"
OR
You could say "that was then..this is now". It's 2009. Let's move forward.
Downtown web site
it was a few years ago when this web page became a class project.
what ever happened to the Del Webb TownHouse? you see the plan for people living downtown was there in the 1960s but some how it failed.
you wanna do a study find some one who lived at the Townhouse and ask them what happened to the major plans for downtown living in the late 1960s?
now what is left of that plan is all fucked up because the people who were in charge did not follow through with the plans to the next group that took over and most of those plans have been forgotten I think they got erased to save storage space (not sure if that is true but it seems like that is what happens).
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