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Hidden in Plain Sight

Jesse Walker | 8.12.2004 10:37 AM

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Steve Koppelman has some advice for The Miami Herald: "Next time you assign a story on what a wasteland some low-rent business district is, talk to a couple of the people who run and patronize those low-rent businesses."

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. Isaac Bartram   21 years ago

    "[Councilman Lee Hillier]...points to examples such as exposed Dumpsters, ragged fences, some topped with barbed wire, and outdoor car lifts."

    After all the Beamer dealer across town doesn't have an outdoor car lift, why do these people need one?

    "...bringing in sidewalk caf?s and other entertainment businesses, building a performing-arts theater or other major attraction, and encouraging the creation of artists' workshops and galleries."

    Does it never occur to the city mommies in these places that if these things were in demand they would be there? And who wants to sit in a sidewalk caf? next to a busy arterial road in South Florida?

    This article appears to be nothing but a PR flak piece to help some connected developer(s) instigate a land grab and a connected planning firm to generate some income (as well as inflate its reputation).

  2. joe   21 years ago

    Well put, Isaac.

    "Revitalize" means "restore life." Sounds to me like there was plenty of life going on on that strip - just not the kind our intrepid reporter was capable of appreciating. This was not some dead mall or blighted downtown.

  3. Ruthless   21 years ago

    We live less than half a block north of 13th Street in the killing fields of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati.
    The police, in cahoots with this neighborhood council--composed exclusively of white gentrifiers--has put a barricade at the main entrance onto 13th Street which has turned the street into a ghost street. The rationale was that Kentucky briarhoppers had found it a drive-thru for drug dealing plus easy egress back to KY.
    For the time being, ruthless hermit that I am, I'm enjoying the peace and quiet, but I'm apprehensive.
    There are a few businesses on 13th Street and they are hurting. Most prominently is a detailing shop.
    Even local TV news people are reporting that the drug traffic was merely pushed to 12th Street.
    Ironically the barricade is right by a fancy, new bell tower/ monument which was intended as a "gateway" into the 'hood.
    The moral to the story is that while most want to live, few want to let live.
    Subtitle: If you can make someone miserable, why not?

  4. Kevin Carson   21 years ago

    Fairly typical from what I've seen. Here in NW Arkansas, "downtown revitalization" schemes seem to result in downtowns made up mainly of banks, yuppie clothing retailers, and high-dollar lunch spots catering to the people who work in banks and yuppie clothing retailers.

  5. Gary Gunnels   21 years ago

    Ouch.

  6. Mark   21 years ago

    As a small-town reporter, I'm offering the following prayer to whatever diety may or may not be out there (Menken's Ghost?):

    Please, never let me fuck up that badly.

    Amen.

  7. Mark   21 years ago

    For instance, by dropping a 'c' in Mencken's name.

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