I would like my $50k now please.
It's been talked about before... the Bee story says the idea failed over 30 years ago.
But someone wants to beat at it again. Fresno has a real river it's in it's other city called North Fresno, and it wants to be a parkway.
I watched California's Gold on PBS on Monday at 7pm it's was a California's Water episode... they featured San Jose's Guadalupe River that goes through downtown San Jose... it's was developed in to a flood control river, it looks nice and Adobe Systems Inc., HQ is right next to that real river, but watching the show there were no mass amounts of people drawn to the river, it looked more like no one knew it was there.
If Fresno wants river taxis then forget the river part for downtown, Fresno City could not even maintain fountains on the Fulton mall just look at the one that became a planter in front of the old bank of Italy building, just bring back Fresno's streetcar system it had before 1939, and you'll get a iron rail river taxis, maybe that will draw businesses back to downtown.
Businesses don't want to be next to rivers, unless they need to to discharge their wastes, look at the past when Gottschocks moved their HQ from Downtown to next to Woodward park, they had those problems with the wild animals, when birds would build their mud nests on the edges of it's building.
But if City council is looking to fix it's homeless problem, put a river in downtown and the shanty town south of it will have a place to bathe.
A man made downtown river is a bad idea, if the city wants to play with a river then work on the real one in the city of North Fresno.
the City of Fresno can make their $50k check out to me.
downtown
Let's talk about the working Mom's who are trying to juggle a full time job, laundry, dinner, home taxi, housework and a thousand other things at the same time. She will put her lunch hour to work for errands three or four times a week. So give her something that works. Put anchor stores on the Fulton Mall: Longs Drugs(there already), grocery store, a strong general merchandiser, simple home funishings, work clothes, shoe store and make Fulton service the downtown worker bees! Make Fulton back into a street with store front parking. Easy to carry in and out merhandise and save shopper time. Keep it clean. Excellent tree cover for hot summer days. And quick eateries. Now all those hard working Moms and Grandmothers will make you RICH. Pluse the anchor stores will encourage the future hi-rish flat owners to start purchasing living quarters and walk safe downtown street to shop and enjoy. The new library in the Arts district will also help speed up the downtown improvements! Pay attention to the "Worker Bees" with check books and credit cards.
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