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More on Nice Downtowns: Do They Just Happen? Or Are They Made?
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoBetter question: what is a successful downtown? An entertaining Main Street USA style place that pleases visitors? Or a living place with commerce, residents and industry living in harmony? Or what? Maybe its easier to define a failed downtown - closed storefronts, declining buildings and poor streets are red flags. I recall the old Sunnyvale CA downtown, with its corner bar with mariachi music at all hours, its mix of thrift shops and restaurants, the old pavement with makers marks from the early 1900's. It was ... interesting. They remade it as a boutiquey shopping district with fake old English streetlights and brick pavement and chainstores, and I never went back.