[In response to “LETTER: Need for later retail hours; CC disappointing”]
“The first convention was, in the opinion of most merchants in our district, a dismal failure, insofar as proving out that visitors to the center would have any interest in shopping here. The city now needs to stop chanting ‘build it and they will come’ and put forth the effort to draw in the populace that’s already here.”
Well worth repeating. Well worth pointing out, again and again and again.
No “silver bullet” project of ANY kind can possibly work UNLESS it provides SUSTAINABLE economic growth. Without repeat local business, economic growth cannot possibly be sustainable.
