Have you attended one of these events yet? While it's a different approach to revitalizing and promoting the Downtown area, are there just a select group of people attending, or do you truly have an interest in attending?I recently learned that the Director of Urban Salisbury was overheard stating a new Market was coming to Salisbury. Considering they are filing for Grants to improve the Downtown area, you'd think this would be a prime location to once again attempt to rebuild Downtown and spark some new interest.
However, when asked where Urban Salisbury planned to put this new Downtown Market they were shocked to hear their reply. They said, it's not going Downtown, we want it to survive.
Oh, yeah, this is where you insert foot in mouth.................
Put a medical marijuana storefront downtown once Maryland legalizes it. That'll stimulate some interest and help grow businesses.
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ReplyDeleteI will not continue to support anything that is associated with Jim Ireton. The Downtown Plaza is a failure just like the new mayor we thought would bring us help. Fooled once, fooled twice, but definitely not the third time.
ReplyDeleteI had a conversation with one of the decent council members and that person stated they should have ran for mayor. My God WTH were we thinking?
Louweasel Liarton I want my vote back!
Even your usual skeptics can't seriously question the success of 3rd Friday. Attendance ahs grown from a couple of hundred people in July to over 1000 in Sept. When it rained in Oct, the restaurants were still full and the stores that entertained shoppers were busy.
ReplyDeleteYour source got it wrong. Urban Salisbury just started researching possibility of a market. The site hasn't been considered. At the meeting I attended, the Director said the market has to be viable and if that means it's not downtown then we have to accept another site. Your readers must know that location, location location are the three most important words in retail.
2:28 PM you are full of it. I have attended everyone of them and I would say there wasn't even near 1,000 with all of them combined!!
ReplyDeleteUrban Salisbury is supposed to be dedicated to downtown, not all of Salisbury. I hope there was a misunderstanding. My tax dollars go to Urban Salisbury. It better be for what we were told it was to be.
ReplyDeleteJim Ireton is quickly turning into the worst Mayor Salisbury has ever had. Yes I know you find it hard to believe, but he is running a close second to DingleBarrie Tilghman.
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