According to this late-breaking story by Denny Boyles, Forest City Enterprises has abandoned its plans for a $300 million project that would have brought housing and commercial businesses to an 85-acre area south of Chukchansi Park, the company announced today.
We have long said that big projects like the Forest City plan had a place in the redevelopment of Downtown, but that they wouldn't be the total answer. In January, we wrote that new Mayor Ashley Swearengin's administration, with the naming of a team in charge of revitalizing Fresno's downtown and neighborhoods, seems less focused on "big-bang projects."
What do you think of Forest City's decision to walk away from its plans here? Will Fresno be the better or worse for it?
Photo by John Walker/The Fresno Bee
No one wants to get stuck in the much of Fresno politics.........there is no cash and Tsar Scharton and his merry band are in Pasadena looking for answers.........from the 'little old lady'?
Time everyone woke up and realized that it will take mre that a theme eatery to breath life in Downtown..........maybe they should contact an organization and see if a Hooverville could be build on Fulton Mall, all of the 'uncovered dressed in 30's dress and cooking a chicken in every pot.
Next Tsar Scharton and Mayor Swearengin will be on a plane to Atlantic City to see how a Downtown srill stayed dead even with folks giving up buckets of cash to casinos.
Time for Mayor Swearengin to dress up as Cleopatra and have Scharton row her barge down the water front vision of former Mayor Autry.
'ART WASHES AWAY THE DIRT FROM THE SOUL OF EVERY DAY LIFE' PICASSO
MOI will also sent a monthy donation to the MET, like Jim says, if one small boy can realize the true value of things in Fresno, it makes you wonder what the folks at 'Silly Hall' do with all of the cash they receive in brilliant pay packets.......wait for some out side saviour to come forward?
Mind, Tsar Scharton and company can travel to Pasadena to find answers to what makes a Downtown brilliant and Mayor Swearengin can board jets to Washington, but they can not appreciate how horrid it would be to allow 'beauty' right in our own backyard to go unappreciated.
More's the pity.