Wilkes Barre visitor Center (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre: house, high school, taxes)

[W-B proud]

Wilkes-Barre's long awaited visitors center will finally break ground this spring. I for one think they should go all out, and rebuild the entire Market st Square. I propose "Market st Victorian Village" a small victorian shopping village (think Cape May) instead of the ugly parking lot that is currently there, a walkable cobblestone or brick pedestrian "square" lined with gas-lamps, benches, flower baskets, and a fountain right in the middle ect. Instead of that ugly building that used to house The Movie Gallery, I say bulldoze it and in its place build a old victoian style fascaded village with pastel colored store fronts, maybe a bed and breakfast, an ice-cream shop, art store ect. a little "victorian village" right in downtown W-B! Imagine stepping off of the future train in Wilkes-Barre Station, eating lunch at the newly restored station restaraunt and then stepping outside to a quaint little village in the heart of the city. Sitting on a bench on a warm summer night under the glow of a gas lamp eating an ice cream cone listening to the children play over by the fountain with the cities skyline in the background. One can only dream!

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

Wilkes-Barre's long awaited visitors center will finally break ground this spring. I for one think they should go all out, and rebuild the entire Market st Square. I propose "Market st Victorian Village" a small victorian shopping village (think Cape May) instead of the ugly parking lot that is currently there, a walkable cobblestone or brick pedestrian "square" lined with gas-lamps, benches, flower baskets, and a fountain right in the middle ect. Instead of that ugly building that used to house The Movie Gallery, I say bulldoze it and in its place build a old victoian style fascaded village with pastel colored store fronts, maybe a bed and breakfast, an ice-cream shop, art store ect. a little "victorian village" right in downtown W-B! Imagine stepping off of the future train in Wilkes-Barre Station, eating lunch at the newly restored station restaraunt and then stepping outside to a quaint little village in the heart of the city. Sitting on a bench on a warm summer night under the glow of a gas lamp eating an ice cream cone listening to the children play over by the fountain with the cities skyline in the background. One can only dream!

How are you and I not married yet?

[wilkes-barretruestory]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

Wilkes-Barre's long awaited visitors center will finally break ground this spring. I for one think they should go all out, and rebuild the entire Market st Square. I propose "Market st Victorian Village" a small victorian shopping village (think Cape May) instead of the ugly parking lot that is currently there, a walkable cobblestone or brick pedestrian "square" lined with gas-lamps, benches, flower baskets, and a fountain right in the middle ect...

Doesn't the county own that property? Yep. That isn't even Wilkes-Barre's project. You don't know even what you are talking about.

How about this, we let the free market do its work... if people move here and pay some taxes, then we can rebuild.

#$*@ Democrats want to tax everyone to pay for their foolishness. Tell Mayor Leighton, the county commissioners and our Legislature not to bury us any further in debt, and perhaps we will be able to take on projects like this.

In the meantime, as long as we have these greedy mismanaging meatheads in charge, rest assured there won't be enough money for a project like that.

Keep dreamin'. Just shows you don't know how the world works.

[W-B proud]

You're pretty negative, I chose to be positive Is there anything wrong with dreaming? I believe you need to invest in the future of our city! To make it a better place, to make it attractable to potential, future residents. What is your option? Let it decay to the point that it looks like inter-city Detriot? Projects like this do not rest only on the shoulders of W-B residents or county residents. Everybody screamed bloody murder when they first proposed building the arena. Oh it'll never work!, oh the taxes will go through the roof ect! And just look at the undisputed success it has been.Other cities in Pa. have very successful major projects. For example: Easton has The Crayola Factory museum, Williamsport is the home of the Little League World Series, even Scranton has Steamtown, and on and on. So why not Wilkes-Barre? Why is it so much to ask that W-B be included? And as far as Democrats tax, tax, tax. You need to check your history! The defeceit that Republican George Bush has run up is the largest one in the entire history of the U.S.A.! And I'm neither a democrat or a republican. I think they're all crooks. I'm just pointing out a fact.

[Chefkey]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

You're pretty negative, I chose to be positive Is there anything wrong with dreaming? I believe you need to invest in the future of our city! To make it a better place, to make it attractable to potential, future residents. What is your option? Let it decay to the point that it looks like inter-city Detriot? Projects like this do not rest only on the shoulders of W-B residents or county residents. Everybody screamed bloody murder when they first proposed building the arena. Oh it'll never work!, oh the taxes will go through the roof ect! And just look at the undisputed success it has been.Other cities in Pa. have very successful major projects. For example: Easton has The Crayola Factory museum, Williamsport is the home of the Little League World Series, even Scranton has Steamtown, and on and on. So why not Wilkes-Barre? Why is it so much to ask that W-B be included? And as far as Democrats tax, tax, tax. You need to check your history! The defeceit that Republican George Bush has run up is the largest one in the entire history of the U.S.A.! And I'm neither a democrat or a republican. I think they're all crooks. I'm just pointing out a fact.

I agree and keep up the good posts

[WasPA]

The 'free market' has been fiddlin' with that property for three/odd decades; the timing was wrong; it's now better unless the economic prospects created by 8 years of the nightmare presidency should throw us into a hideous tailspin.

I've never been a fan of the 'boulevard' system created post-Agnes although I 'get' the premise in facilitating movement into DT to increase DT populations; yet it ends up being auto-oriented (suburb in town) rather than part of the urban fabric. That might be okay for now...there's enough conventional 'urban fabric' to upgrade around and off the Square as it is.

....guess my point is that the re-use sommehow connect better to DT than does the Boulevard oriented office 'park' stuff does....and that the absolute right 'draw'/ attraction be installed there as the basis for the evolution of the Market St. block---something not in competition with Main St.

[dansdrive]

Originally Posted by W-B proud

Wilkes-Barre's long awaited visitors center will finally break ground this spring. I for one think they should go all out, and rebuild the entire Market st Square. I propose "Market st Victorian Village" a small victorian shopping village (think Cape May) instead of the ugly parking lot that is currently there, a walkable cobblestone or brick pedestrian "square" lined with gas-lamps, benches, flower baskets, and a fountain right in the middle ect. Instead of that ugly building that used to house The Movie Gallery, I say bulldoze it and in its place build a old victoian style fascaded village with pastel colored store fronts, maybe a bed and breakfast, an ice-cream shop, art store ect. a little "victorian village" right in downtown W-B! Imagine stepping off of the future train in Wilkes-Barre Station, eating lunch at the newly restored station restaraunt and then stepping outside to a quaint little village in the heart of the city. Sitting on a bench on a warm summer night under the glow of a gas lamp eating an ice cream cone listening to the children play over by the fountain with the cities skyline in the background. One can only dream!

Dreams are great but one always wakes up to reality! Wilkes-Barre was a beautiful city when coal was king and Mr. Peanut roamed about public square. All good things come to an end, for Wilkes-Barre it has been a long slow process but has finally completed its transformation from family friendly to economically depressed on government sponsored life support.

Someday it will be clear that higher paying jobs is the way to bring back the masses of tax paying young families to Wilkes-Barre. It sad that the tax payers of the area are paying high school taxes for the benefits of other communities such as in the southern states to gleem their educated workforce.