I have never heard mention of sidewalks being widened in all of my SSHD meetings. They are being replaced, tinted, graded for ramps, and proper height curbs are being installed, new lights and new trees. As they are keeping parking on both sides and a driving lane in the middle, there is really nowhere to get "more sidewalk". Even if they were widening them I can't see them getting any more than a couple of inches.

agreed - my bad. not sure why i said widened in reply.

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So just to clarify, this has started? I read on the FAQs section that it was due to start on March 3rd but I haven't been down there since.
http://www.southstreet.com/index.php...:news&Itemid=8

Oh, most resoundingly, yes.

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"If we can't learn from our mistakes, what's the point of making them!" ...my friend Richard.

Why did they cut down those trees? That lovely arch of trees over lower South Street? Cool, beautiful, graceful old trees? This new streetscape couldn't include them? What is the vision or statement of this streetscape? Will the new plantings be little saplings that take decades to provide shade and grow into a presence on the streetscape?

Next the SSHD will be installing "main line" style women with dogs in bags on cell phones and several valet parking attendants with Bentleys parked along the street.

"We WILL make this high class cause dammit I moved here and I demand to make money on my investment"

- SSHD member who moved to south for the "cool" but now wants to kill it.

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Typical.

How many SSHD meetings have you been to?

How many SSHD board members do you know?

How many South Street merchants do you know?

I am guessing the answer to all three is ZERO.

SSHD is trying to draw more people, more business and more money to South Street. SSHD is trying to get rid of all the turnover and vacant storefronts. No one is trying to bring in a Gucci store. Unique shops, boutiques and restaurants is more like it.

Part of making the street more appealing to businesses is to clean it up and bring more people to the street to spend money. Reduced crime, reduced vacancies, new lighting and clean sidewalks is just part of that plan. I suppose we could leave it be and let it degrade into a dump....but I'd like it to be more than that.

Well seeing that some of the trees were ripping up the sidewalks from under, I can see why they would want to start over(And with trees that won't do that).

And they'll probably use the same trees that are now on Girard Ave.

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