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Saving downtown
The Sunday edition of the Dayton Daily News had several stories about what it might take to breathe new life into the core city.
Most prominently featured was the Crossroads series, which contained stories about how important saving downtown Dayton will be to the region’s future prosperity and in particular, how to revive the downtown arcade, which has been rotting empty for more than a decade.
Coincidentally, the paper had two other stories that fit with this theme. Margo Rutledge Kissell and I wrote about how little money from Dayton’s school construction program is being spent on local companies and to employ local workers. Reviving the city schools would have to be a key part of any plan to improve the inner city. All new schools, which the $627 million program will provide, should be a huge step in that direction.
Then on the front of the Metro section, Ben Sutherly writes about Findlay and the strategies that city has used to improve its center city.
None of these stories were specifically coordinated to compliment each other, but it does make for a nice Sunday paper when things come together like this.
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By Rick
August 11, 2005 8:37 AM | Link to this
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