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1. Transportation: The current system is unreliable, especially in the evenings and weekends 2. Adult Entertainment: Its shoddy most nights, and not really comprehensive. The After 5pm activities need to be increased. A couple Weekend spots is not going to cut it. 3. Shopping: Macys, Forever 21 and the scattering of other stores are not going to cut it. We need more street level stores with attractive store fronts. 4. Nearby low Cost Neighborhoods: There have been tons of development around downtown, but most of it is really expensive. There needs to be some more affordable housing nearby to stock downtown with pedestrians. 5. Daytime Activities: steps have been taken to improve this in recent years but we still have some ways to go. A better Aquarium, moe parks, some spots of interest to visit.... 6. Ground Level Restaurants: There are some good restaurants in and around downtown, but we need more and we need more at groundlevel. 7. More affordable hotel rooms: we need more smaller, cheaper hotel chains closer to downtown 8. Street Vendors: I dunno, anything to spin off more street level activity 9. Getting people out of the tunnels and skywalks: on nice days people still use them. we are like mole people 10. Connect the area: The area is isolated from the surrounded areas by highways. These should be tunneled or rerouted. better connection with residential neighborhoods would help increase activity from these neighborhoods
Cars, cattle parading down the street for the stock show, people actually trying to live their lives. (Sarc, that's what makes it good, IMO.) Who cares about "world class vibrancy"? Isn't the city supposed to be for the people that live there?
Cars, cattle parading down the street for the stock show, people actually trying to live their lives. (Sarc, that's what makes it good, IMO.) Who cares about "world class vibrancy"? Isn't the city supposed to be for the people that live there?
I'd be interested in whether a downtown works for the city and the region as a whole. It's always good to have people living in the downtown, the more the better. But downtown is more than a dense neighborhood, hopefully it's a gathering place for the rest of the city. World class, whatever that is, may or may not follow.
What happens, or doesn't happen, as a result of the counties failing to cooperate with the city?
alot of things. For example, the city is revamping the beautiful old main street station downtown, but the city and county are feuding over weather certain train lines will stop there, or at the county station. Also, in VA the city is a completely different jurisdiction from the county, so the counties have trouble cooperating on a multitude of things.
I'd be interested in whether a downtown works for the city and the region as a whole. It's always good to have people living in the downtown, the more the better. But downtown is more than a dense neighborhood, hopefully it's a gathering place for the rest of the city. World class, whatever that is, may or may not follow.
By "live their lives" I meant doing such things as going to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Denver Art Museum, and the like, as well as living there.
JS: I’ve repeated it so much I hate to tell you the same thing, but it’s the honest truth. The biggest mistake cities make is to allow themselves to effectively be designed by their director of public works. The director of public works, he or she is making decisions every single day about the width of streets, the presence of parking, the question of bike lanes. And he’s doing it in response to the complaints he’s hearing. But if you satisfy those complaints you wreck the city.
A typical public works director doesn’t think about “What kind of city do we want to be?” They think about what people complain about, and it’s almost always traffic and parking.
The one thing we’ve learned without any doubt, is the more room you give the car the more room they will take and that will wreck cities. Optimizing any of these practical considerations — sewers, parking, vehicle capacity — almost always makes a city less walkable.
^^ I think in general that we should use trains, and public transportation, as well as living in walkable communities, not just for that reason, but also for many others.
Philly again: the Gallery, rowhouse in the middle of downtown west, surface lots and relatively small and few blocks of urban activities like Walnut and some side streets. The vast open park space also need to go. Parks are nice but in a right size and careful thought will do the trick. The rest needs to be highrise areas.
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