First Directions: Downtown Development Action Plan

The Big Ideas

• Big Idea 1:
  What If...downtown became a twenty four hour, seven day a week (24/7) urban center, a sustainable community where people live, work, shop and enjoy a full range of recreational activities in a safe, pedestrian-friendly environment?
  
  
• Big Idea 2:
  What If.... Downtown became a full service entertainment, tourism and cultural center for the region, with restaurants, clubs, festivals, theaters, concerts and arts venues that augment the existing major attractions?
  
  
• Big Idea 3:
  What If... twenty-first century educational and technological innovation and excellence was a distinct element of the new downtown with state of the art technology, a high-quality workforce, and excellent educational institutions?
  
  
• Big Idea 4:
  What If... downtown was a place where walking was a pleasure, where transit was readily available and convenient to use, and the major road corridors supported downtown's role as a primary destination, the "center of the Region" without creating barriers to the river, downtown attractions or in-town neighborhoods?
  
  

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