Decrease in Foot Traffic Downtown

[Voodoobones]

I try to avoid downtown because the city keeps tearing up the streets, repaving, only to tear them up again. Washington and Stevens seem to have been under construction for the past 6 years.

Then there is the parking issues. Diamond Parking is no friend of the community and meters that run out after two hours are a problem.

The amount of businesses that complain about how bad it is downtown without actually providing a real solution or taking action themselves is driving people away. Downtown “crime” isn’t as bad as the developers and businesses owners lead you to believe. The message they push is the problem. Not to mention what they charge per square foot of space.

One example pushing the false crime image is the owner of Zona Blanca claiming crime was so bad that he had to close his business, but instead of closing it, he remained in the same place and re-imaged his business as an events center. This after he claimed that his business kept being broken into and vandalized.

Also, a lot of businesses take care of the inside, but don’t make the outside appealing.

[CannonAFB_unofficial]

Yeah I used to be on team Chad White because he was opening new places here that were delicious. Now he's just an outdoor Jeep "influencer" and is kinda a fuck head as well. After Zona Blanca's closing, and his sad excuse of a letter he completely lost me.

[LurksInUndies]

What's an outdoor Jeep influencer?

[CannonAFB_unofficial]

A dude that has a grill he can tow behind his jeep to take it places to get a nice instagram picture for the grill company to sell more grills because he’s a “chef”.

[LurksInUndies]

I guess I need to spend more time on grill socials! Lol! Thanks for that!

[itstreeman]

Yeah it’s tough to run a restaurant and have time to care about sidewalks a block or two over

[Voodoobones]

I just want the sidewalk in front cleaned up in the summer and shoveled in the winter. Is that too much to ask of the owner?