August 07
So the news from downtown merchants is that, not only is the Bijou bridge slated for an early completion date and is under budget, but the city is also hosting a breakfast for downtowners. I wouldn’t hold your breath just yet, but our municipal gubmint is apparently committing to a campaign to hype downtown shops, restaurants, housing and downtown as a destination.
Two major questions: First, why didn’t they do this a year ago; and second, how widespread is the campaign going to be? I can’t imagine the city shelling out for TV commercials or cock-punching other city locales by bringing bus-stop ads to the boondocks. Anybody heard anything about this?
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all those empty storefronts would be great places to serve the bacon and eggs.
KRCC airs reports on Mondays from the Downtown Partnership at 7:58am. That’s pretty widespread… 50K+ people hear the reports, and have been hearing them for the past month, and will be for the coming months.
Also, I seem to recall reading about much of this on your blog –>here.
Yes, there is a breakfast being hosted by the Gazette at the Olive Branch, Wednesday, 8:30 am. I got the message yesterday and they wanted reservations in by yesterday! I just talked to Jackie at Idoru and we are planning on showing up anyway, as least, we hope to, busy schedules and all.
Agreed, too little too late. And of course, my concern is just not the opening of the Bijou bridge in October, but when Colorado Ave. will be open to both lanes of traffic going both ways! As more of a main artery from the West side to downtown, it’s even more important to get that construction over with.
I love being the traffic director for all the tourists that end up under the bridge looking for an entrance to I-25, but enough is enough! Cosmix should put me on their payroll.
congrats to the downtown community! breakfast at the olive branch — sounds rather delicious.
know who else might dig it?? — those black teenagers that you dragged over from the south east side of town last month to do ghetto dances in the street during ‘diversity’ fest. also, that mariachi band that was playing in acacia park that day must have worked up quite an appetite, too. but from what i hear, those guys might not be able to rsvp in time so make sure to just pencil them in, okay?
i love it how once every year we stage contrived homo-black-lesbian-hispano-festivals to promote downtown…and then spend the rest of the year meeting with our majoritarian, well-educated, white, affluent peers at community breakfasts networking and kissing ass…
i thought downtowns were supposed to be seedy and run down. all the cities ive been to, “downtown” is the seedy and vice counterpart to upscale “uptown”. what we have is not a downtown , but an attempt to make an uptown.. so where is the real downtown?
Just for the record, I agree about the multi-cultural diversity event. Notice that they stuck the “liberals” way off to the side, away from the park on Weber in front of 1st Prez. I’m sure it was on purpose. We are going to the breakfast because there is a rumor that the Gazette is maybe going to provide some free advertising in a central section of the paper for all of us embattled downtown biz people. Not being able to afford the dues for all of the organizations that supposedly represent us, seems like it would be worthwhile to at least hear their proposal.