re: Plank Road Revitalization Unveiling In-Game Thread (8:30 a.m.)

Ok but the shite hole needs to not be a shite hole. While I have less than no faith that SEB and her cronies like gravy can improve anything, isn’t it the role of locally elected governments to try and improve the area the people they represent live?

Pretty much.

A reasonable expectation of revitalization would be to build off of existing corridors of success and work into currently distressed areas.

Problem is that the usual suspects see that as either pushing gentrification or developing white areas at their expense.

They want an “easy” fix where there is massive redevelopment overnight in shitty areas which can’t support such businesses and wouldn’t generate outside traffic that would keep them open.


An example of this kind of mindset is one councilwoman (Chauna Banks?) bitching about the development of the Renaissance Hotel in what is about to be St George and suggesting that the same project could have been done in NBR close to the airport.

No fricking luxury hotel is going to move into NBR where they have to gate in the parking lots and use razor wire to discourage break ins, regardless of the amount of government handouts given toward that end.