I'm linking to this New York Times article about Cleveland's (almost) downtown resurgence because there were a couple of things mentioned that made me think of Dallas.
If the resurgence is not quite downtown, what is the impact on downtown? Does this new development take away from the energy of a nearby diminshed downtown, or is it close enough to support and enhance it? This isn't mentioned and will warrant some additional research. One of the reasons I believe that Downtown Dallas has been slow to respond to the development activity over the past few years is that I felt it was too wide spread. We have pockets of interesting redevelopment but seem to have trouble filling in between them; West End, Victory, Deep Ellum, South Lamar, the Main District and Main Street Gardens, the Arts District, etc. They don't feel to me like a cohesive downtown, yet. Signs do suggest, however, that our Arts District, combined with the Woodall Rogers enclosure may well be serving that purpose by acting as the one connecting piece while also bringing in a vibrant Uptown. Which leads to the other issue.....
Is Cleveland achieving this with their Arts District development just as I have described for Dallas? Sure looks that way from this article. This will be worth following up on.






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