[PRCo] Re: P-G on the role of transit in growing neighborhoods

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Won't Bloomfield get a big boost from the new Children's Hospital?

I guess in a declining population circumstance, it is not unrealistic to
forecast that all neighborhoods won't make it. 

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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I am fearful that what will happen will involve building high-end 
> condos and the like, not dwellings that the average guy can afford.  
> And the politicians want it this way.  But it doesn't produce success 
> in the other neighborhood-building areas, because these people will 
> still have cars and will still go to the shopping centers.

To some extent that's happened here, with South Side Works. The prices they
ask are nuts. Somehow, it's mostly filled.

But this neighborhood has critical mass. The question is how does somewhere
like Bloomfield, seemingly on the upswing, take it to the next step?