Imagine yourself on vacation and driving to wherever it is you’re going. You’re taking a new route from usual and you drive through this downtown. Would this downtown leave an impression on you? If so, what kind of impression would it leave? Is this a place that would catch your attention? 

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I consulted my respected Random House dictionary the other night; the anchor of a book that came with the Windows 3.1-compatible CD that fostered a chuckle. In the age of Google, I like the massive weight of it, the starchy feel of the pages filled with words that have evolved through the centuries. My destination: value or valuable. 

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We get it. The economy is tough. Some businesses are having a hard time getting by. So we will look the other way when a business owner puts a hand made sign up in the window for a sale one week. Then the next week. Then two handmade signs. Then another business owner decides to do it. And another. In another building the roof is leaking. So a bucket goes in the store’s aisle way and ceiling tile or two comes down. It stays like that for a few days, maybe a week or two. Another building owner decides to duct tape the crack in the glass “for a few days until it can get fixed.” It ends up being a few months. Next thing you know, many of your businesses are complaining sales are getting worse. It becomes a downward cycle.

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