Leaving Downtown
The Post-Gazette, in this editorial praising the departing executive director of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, implicitly accepts two false premises that have been at the heart of the city's wrong-headed redevelopment initiatives. One is that making the city a nice place to visit is more important than making it a pleasant and affordable place to live. The other is that revitalizing Downtown is the key to revitalizing the city as a whole. This is backwards. Downtown's continued decline is a symptom of the city's problems, not their cause. You can dress it up in a nice suit and skillfully apply the makeup, but at the end of the day, a corpse is still a corpse.
posted by Jonathan Potts at
6:04 PM
2 Comments:
Worse than a corpse is a corpse with a fresh band-aid.
Worse than a corpse is a corpse within the Emergency Room or I.C.U. that isn't moving and has been at room temperature. Move things along -- and to the morge if need be - is fine.
Mr. Lamb said on a radio talk shows that he wanted all the options on the table, hence he wasn't against TIFs.
I'm against them.
6:55 AM
Me too. Some options should not be on the table, because they have only led us to failure in the past. How sad, and sadder still because it is oh so predictable.
9:09 AM
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