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Sunday, 02 September 2007
WAITAMINIT!!!!!     

 

                        I just read that “businesses fear death knell for downtown.” in this morning’s BEE.  I am astonished and chagrined.

 

A couple of weeks ago, the BEE published an opinion from Chris Ricci telling us that the “revitalized” downtown would produce untold MILLIONS of dollars for the city council to misspend.  I was happy.   Perhaps downtown would actually replace the hundreds of millions of taxpayer’s dollars that were lavished on a profoundly dead city center. 

 

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Today I found out that our downtown entertainment Mecca is actually a haven for drunkards, fist and knife fighters, muggers and imported miscreants.  It takes $500,000 just to provide a modicum of policing which is still overwhelmed, “taxed” and which “needs additional resources”.  Roads have to be barricaded, cop cars must have special parking spots, 90 officers have had special training, but “…fights and public drunkenness have plagued the 12 blocks that make up the downtown entertainment district.”

 

Now my hopes are crushed.  There will be no new nightclubs.  Current business fears a death knell.  The elite audiences attending the Gallo Center will probably require police escorts to keep the muggers, drunks and fighters from attacking them.  Their fancy cars will be vandalized in the parking garages.  The expected millions of tax revenues will disappear, and we will once again have a peaceable,  

inanimate and defunct downtown.  DARN!

 

Dave

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