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That is a no brainer. Having a strong downtown will mean for a stronger city. The city I live in, Pueblo, is doing all it can to help out the downtown and we have a special organization dedicated to doing that.
This is from their web page:
Partnering to attract retail, residential, and business development in Pueblo's City Center, while supporting events and activities that promote a progressive and vibrant urban core.
The link: Urban Renewal Authority of Pueblo, Colorado. (http://www.pueblocitycenter.com/Default.aspx - broken link)
Pueblo is, also, working on a proposal to develop more of our Riverwalk area. This is a map of the proposal:
Heck no. The Muni trains and BART are crowded enough as it is. I usually get on and off at the beginning of my train's run, but I've been in a middle stop a few times and it passed me by because it was jammed packed.
Heck no. The Muni trains and BART are crowded enough as it is. I usually get on and off at the beginning of my train's run, but I've been in a middle stop a few times and it passed me by because it was jammed packed.
So you don't want more jobs because your mass transit is at capacity? I have a better solution. Build more subway lines....
So you don't want more jobs because your mass transit is at capacity? I have a better solution. Build more subway lines....
I'm not going into the pros and cons of the urban planning of the region. I'm speaking selfishly about my commute and how packed the restaurants are at lunch time. San Francisco is pretty densely populated, its central core never died and doesn't need the grandiose schemes of Pueblo to revitalize its downtown.
I'm not going into the pros and cons of the urban planning of the region. I'm speaking selfishly about my commute and how packed the restaurants are at lunch time. San Francisco is pretty densely populated, its central core never died and doesn't need the grandiose schemes of Pueblo to revitalize its downtown.
Pueblo and San Francisco are two different cities with two different issues and can not be compared. Let me talk about San Francisco in this post.
I went to school at USD and am a gay male so I went to San Francisco many times so I am familiar with the area. I grant you it does not need revitalization as the urban core is a vibrant place with a lot to do. However that does not mean the city should not do anything to make it better and that includes attracting more jobs. If they do they will be passed by suburbs like San Jose. Look at NYC as they are more dense and populated yet continue to grow. San Francisco can do it as well they just need to build more mass transit systems not say we have enough stop the growth.
Our "traditional" downtown can't absorb any more workers because it's at capacity. Our emerging downtown's like NOMA, Capitol Riverfront, and the SW Waterfront which work as an extension of our "traditional" downtown are absorbing all the additional jobs coming in. I think it is very important to center most jobs downtown.
Chicago, Denver and Seattle are generating more jobs with more headquarters moving downtown. The rest of downtowns, no such luck.
You must not look at other cities. Pueblo, for example, has the Professional Bull Riders world headquarters in downtown and they are a big factor in our city centers revitalization.
Here is a picture I took of their building on the Riverwalk.
If more people worked in my city's downtown area, there wouldn't be enough parking spaces for all the new employees.
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