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The "Main St. Plan"

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Category: Middletown City Government
Forum Name: Economic Development
Forum Description: Local government efforts to develop the local Middletown area economy.
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Printed Date: Jan 17 2026 at 1:04pm


Topic: The "Main St. Plan"
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Subject: The "Main St. Plan"
Date Posted: Aug 03 2010 at 10:43pm
While listening to Robinette trying to pump sunshine up everyone's behind about the "new" downtown plan tonight, I couldn't help but think about that old cheer at our high school basketball games as a player got ready to take his second foul shot anfter making his first one:
 
"We want another one, just like the other one!!!  Sink us, Robinette, sink us!!!"
 
We just keep trying the same old, tired failed, risky scheme...over and over again...hoping against hope that, this time, we will somehow get a different ending.


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“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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Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Aug 04 2010 at 7:29am
It would be interesting to know who the real puppeteers are in this town. Robinette is just the court jester/presenter of ideas for some "higher echelon" pulling the strings in this town. I would imagine the same goes for the Kohlers, Landens and Gillelands in the city building. They are probably just the executioners of ideas from some higher power making the decisions.

OR......are the city building people actually coming up with most of this "town development" crap on their own and are really that out of touch with the true priorities needed to revitalize this town? Are they really as bad as they seem as to money mis-management, citizen exclusion and pathetic ideas? How inept can a group of people be?

Posted By: wasteful
Date Posted: Aug 04 2010 at 7:57am
Well if you watched last night they stated they had a meeting and about 80 stakeholders and groups attended for the Main St./Downtown Plan.  That leaves about 49920 residents who are not represented at the table, yet those 49920 residents get the pleasure of footing the Bill for this plan whether they want to or not.  Much like the $450k going to Verdin.
 
This will continue until the people paying the bills move as a group and say enough is enough and if that means a march on City Hall much like happened in Bell, California when the residents saw how much their city leaders were being paid and put a stop to it so be it.  Problem is Middletown residents won't march and the city knows it.  So the Stakeholders and the City will continue to fleece us.
 
 


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