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Marianne View Drop Down
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    Posted: Feb 18 2010 at 11:31am
Interesting article:
http://www.units.muohio.edu/hawkseye/node/19
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Hope that it works, and similar progress here will follow.
 
Marianne--the Arcade has been "re-built and re-invented" maybe more often than the former downtown area of Middletown, with the same end results.
 
I know a few businesses similar to mine that lost a bundle trying to make it work in the Arcade.
 
Re-inventing a seriously dead former downtown is a major struggle, and too exoensive for most small private businesses. Occasionally a group can band together and make it work, however you need a strong adjacent residential stock with enough discretionary income to support the area business options. A key obstacle in our situation.
 
Though the area is now a huge vacuum, downtown Dayton does have a few assets from which to build uopn.
IE:Dragons, Canal St.Tavern,Oregon District, Jay's, Memorial Hall, Victory Theater, a few upscale condos
 
Still--on a daily basis(very necessary), the Arcade will be a destination for just whom?
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Spider:
Two other things that Dayton Arcade has that the former downtown Middletown does not have:
  • A location only three or four blocks from an interchange of an interstate highway.
  • Ten thousand, or more, people stopping within two thousand feet of it every day. (Workers, shoppers, businessmen, several real hotels, Schuster Center, Memorial Hall, Montgomery Co. courthouse & jail, Dayton City Hall, etc.)
“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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