Economic Development

Downtown Revitalization Plan

Frequently Asked Questions

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1. What’s the revitalization plan all about?

2. How will you make it work?

3. How much will it cost and how much will it cost taxpayers?

4. How will the plan work without raising taxes?

5. How will you attract a major hotel when we have trouble attracting small businesses downtown?

6. Who will use the planned conference center?

7. Why do you think this plan will work when others haven’t?

8. How will a hotel and conference center survive downtown without other businesses like restaurants and retail shops?

9. Why do we need a parking deck?

10. Will the revitalization plans hurt existing downtown businesses?

11. Why do you have to tear down historic buildings to make this plan work?

12. How confident can we be in the feasibility study that was conducted?

13. What will happen if the hotel doesn’t make it; what will that do to downtown?

14. How soon will the project begin and how will we know if it’s succeeded or not?

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