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Can this downtown problem be solved? By Linda Waggener This problem belongs to a landlord, a college and a downtown. Pretend its some other town for the purpose of thinking on solutions. In the beginning, the landlord had rental income to pay for his investment in an historic building from a tennant with an upscale meet-and-greet coffee shop; The college had a positive connection to downtown, plus a training ground and income source for working students. The downtown had an anchor drawing card for use in recruitment -- just ask the Chamber of Commerce leaders. Meet us at the coffee shop were words used by more and more people who had need to be in the little downtown for business and socializing. One day the coffee shop closed and the result is a problem for all those who had come to depend upon it. The town is sad. The landlord is sad and the college is sad. Everyone wondered what to do to put things back in place. What can be done? Lets pretend the town wants harmonious growth and prosperity for all its citizens, so the leaders reach out to work with the landlord and the college, offering the landlord a great tax break -- as great as if they were recruiting him from some other town -- on all his holdings, if he would consider working together with them and with the college to keep the shop going. And the landlord . . . Lets pretend the landlord is a person of means who does not have to earn a particular sum from that particular property and, further that the landlord sincerely wants to leave the little town in which he grew up a better place. So he says yes to the town leaders and he reaches out to the college and offers to lease the shop for a tiny sum if they agree to keep it running as a meet-and-greet coffee shop and also use it as a classroom in which to train young people in customer service so they can more easily obtain jobs after graduation. And the college? The college is moved by the landlord and the towns generosity and agrees. As a part of its strong business focus, the college decides to offer customer service training and reality-store management among its majors. Consequently they become able to recruit more students because of their growing fame from the unique downtown lab in which students can work and study while they are in school. And the town and the landlord and the college live happily ever after. . . Even with a bypass O.K. it looks like downtown Columbia WILL get bypassed in a matter of one or two years if the news reports from Frankfort this month are to be believed. Thats fair, the majority rules, and the majority has been seriously inconvenienced for many years. All one has to do is try to get home from Campbellsville Road between 3 and 5 pm on weekdays to know beyond a doubt that Columbia needs a bypass. Heck, even the graveyard has become a traffic re-router for people trying to get from Campbellsville Street to Greensburg Street when the square is blocked. Its a little depressing but it works. So they say, I never did that myself, of course. Truckers from all over the country must swear when they know their load has to be snaked around the square in Columbia because the old courthouse is just waiting for their rigs to nick a brick and cause them to have to stop and put it back in place before getting on down the road. And so, downtown is further challenged to be its best self. Because once the newer, straighter roads are in place, there will have to be very strong reasons for people to slow down and follow the signs to the downtown business district. This story was posted on 2004-03-11 06:35:49
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