I recently had a conversation with a friend who contended that wanting downtowns to be viable is quaint and unrealistic. He feels that downtowns are more trouble than they are worth because of their high density, lack of parking, and overpriced retail that can be bought more conveniently and cheaply in chain stores.
Admittedly, this is a pretty limited viewpoint, but is it the reality of what most people think? Not everyone I spoke with agreed that downtown needed more density to thrive...it's apparent most Americans value their physical space, which I think is intrinsically tied to the anti-downtown value system. What does a downtown need to do or be to be viable, to compete with the sprawl? Can a low-density downtown work? Or, even more directly, other than sentiment or nostalgia, why is it even important to a community that downtown be viable at all--why do we need downtown cores?
I explained to my friend that Salina has a great start on a great downtown. It has a great art center, an independent cinema, a theater, a few distinctive non-chain restaurants, and a distinctive non-chain coffee shop. These are unique services and entertainment that cannot or will not be duplicated in the mall. But is this enough shopping and entertainment? What else needs to happen other than shopping and entertainment?
If you had one thing you could do to or in Salina's downtown, what would it be?
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The space between the stores at the mall is privately owned. All of us own Santa Fe Ave. What is the one thing I would do for downtown Salina, just one thing, I would hire a crew of people to be on duty outdoors as populators, day and night, like ghosts of the crowds that used to walk on these blocks, reminding people of the joys of mingling in public space with people who are different from you but share for a moment a spot of sidewalk as they go about their business.
Would getting Sunflower Bank to build that megalopolis on S. Ohio in town instead of have helped create foot traffic?
This is kind of crazy, but what about building a school in the downtown area...maybe not on Santa Fe, but somewhere close; especially if it were a high school the local businesses would get more traffic during the day, at least. And the library is right there!
In case I didn't mention it (I didn't), I think CZ's "populators" sentiment is a lovely one. It will be projected on the walls in the exhibition at the SAC very soon.
SB thinks a citys downtown is what people think of as the heart of a city. It comes to represent what a city is about. When a city has an aesthetically attractive downtown, such as Lawrence's Massuchussetts Street or Wichitas Old Town area it makes a good first impression on visitors to the city. Yes, we have the art center and the cinema in the downtown but the majority of the storefronts and the whole downtown experience is less than desirable. Remove some of the old aluminum facades and renovate the original brick buildings...
I think that we need to promote a new attitude of historic pride to promote the preservation of Salina's downtown buildings. Perhaps there are opportunities to give tax incentives to local businesses, especially restaurants and bars, willing to locate in the downtown area. We already have theaters and museums - more "hangouts" and upper-end restaurants would give folks a way to spend an entire evening downtown.
I presently live on the main street of another town's "downtown" in a loft and I used to live in a loft in downtown Salina. I think this is a key component to the vitality of a city's core area. When people physically inhabit a space other things follow which support that habitation and which enlarge the sense of community. Suddenly the area is not a place to GO but to BE.
"Suddenly the area is not a place to GO but to BE."
An interesting point...does it have to be a place to go before it can become a place to be? That would not have been the case in the past, but post-industrial population patterns of the last 40 years would suggest that increasingly we want to live in places we want to go, as opposed to, say, places near where we work.
I have been up in some of the lofts downtown. They are in need of repair, but to fix them up and have inhabitants would be excellent. People watch Sex and the City and Will and Grace and think 'Oh how lovely it would be to live in a place like that'. We may not be New York City but living in the 'heart' of Salina is as close as we can get.
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