Skip the tax breaks, just ensure it's fun to go to downtown. Tax breaks are trickle down benefits to businesses that don't necessarily get to consumers and not

Skip the tax breaks, just ensure it's fun to go to downtown. Tax breaks are trickle down benefits to businesses that don't necessarily get to consumers and not at all to the workers of such businesses. * Reasonably priced food and beverages. They are critical if you want people to hang out for longer. - Instead of adjusting taxes, make change to the vending permits to bring goods+rent prices down. Decent minimum wage (to cut the tipping craziness) and pricing limits. * Add more parks and place for culture. - You can start with the parking lot looking something at Howard and Main. It's depressing passing by and thinking that someone thought that thing was great. - The transit center is just sad. The first floor is deserted while it could easily have at least a coffee place and art. * Convert a couple of streets into a park. - If you are saying there's no people going there, why do we need that many streets? - It'd be neat to have streets like 3rd or Harrison turned into a park. Maybe other streets if that allows better future expansion of the parks. - Bike routes would be better if they went through a park. Safer, fewer stops at traffic lights. - Other cities have done this already, - https://architectureau.com/articles/converting-roads-to-parks