In the early 1990s, the powers that be—that means the local government as much as the insurance and banking corporations—published an initiative called destination Downtown. This document considered the downtown area to be at a “crossroads” facing “significant threats.” Both government and corporate entities were deeply troubled by the lack of a strong tax base in the downtown area. There were the large corporations with their many employees, but after working hours, the people that constituted these businesses returned to their suburban homes to the west, ferried away by I-235.
World food and music festival
World food and music festival
World food and music festival
In the early 1990s, the powers that be—that means the local government as much as the insurance and banking corporations—published an initiative called destination Downtown. This document considered the downtown area to be at a “crossroads” facing “significant threats.” Both government and corporate entities were deeply troubled by the lack of a strong tax base in the downtown area. There were the large corporations with their many employees, but after working hours, the people that constituted these businesses returned to their suburban homes to the west, ferried away by I-235.