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quick Google search (first few pages) found articles about the merchants of the following cities objecting
to downtown closures:
Holly, Michigan
Fairhope, Alabama
Macon, Georgia
Tehachopi, Cal.
Carlsbad, Cal
Leesburg, VIrginia
And last but not least Las Vegas, where the Sun newspaper has the following quote:
“This is why we stopped closing the street off a few years ago,” Metzger said, adding that as far as she knew, only one owner favored closing the street. “It was too chaotic then — too many people just hanging out — and there weren’t nearly as many people back then as there are now.”
That's a money quote from a town that knows something about promotion -- and money.
Holly, Michigan
Fairhope, Alabama
Macon, Georgia
Tehachopi, Cal.
Carlsbad, Cal
Leesburg, VIrginia
And last but not least Las Vegas, where the Sun newspaper has the following quote:
“This is why we stopped closing the street off a few years ago,” Metzger said, adding that as far as she knew, only one owner favored closing the street. “It was too chaotic then — too many people just hanging out — and there weren’t nearly as many people back then as there are now.”
That's a money quote from a town that knows something about promotion -- and money.