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Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment. Shaping a City is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer’...
In this innovative guidebook, Ithaca insider Laurel Guy weaves 10,000 details into a portrait of the town, its people and yes, the weather. Recording her thoughts over the course of a year, she takes readers on a on-of-a kind exploration of the city and its surroundings, delving into both history and wahat's new ... Natural wonders. Offbeat outings. ... Cornell trivia. Restaurants and bars. Coffee. Art. Theater. Kidstuff. ... gorgeous gorges.--
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