Preventing more and faster downtown demolition
Fri, 06/18/2021 - 12:00am
What makes a downtown a fun, vibrant and interesting place to live or visit? The list could include museums, art and cultural attractions, interesting businesses, cool places to live, work, eat and drink. I’ll bet that any lists you’ve ever made have never said “parking lot” or “vacant lot.” Vibrancy and a vacant lot are worlds apart. Downtowns and downtown districts thrive on density; on buildings that provide the physical space for jobs, activity and excitement. Density is what keeps historic and downtown districts intact, and what holds neighborhoods together. Buildings are important, both buildings that are old enough to be deemed historic and those buildings that, if they survive, one day will be.
