So, the powers that be have apparently decided to give some consideration to the idea of renaming Broadway Street to 'change its image.' What do they want to rename it? Redwood St.
I don't even know where to start with this. I mean, sarcastic racially-tinged commentary aside: 'It should be 'White Oak St' since that's the State Tree of Illinois' says one P-C Troll... what's it going to do? Is it going to stop crime? Is it going to raise to socio-economic status of the neighborhood? Of course not... what it will do, apparently is give some money to Southgate Development who's trying to re-furbish/polish up the infamous apartments down there and apparently want to try re-branding them as well.
This is a titanic waste of time- not that unusual for Iowa City, but a waste of time nonetheless. You want to do something useful for the south side? Clean up Highway 6 and put some decent sidewalks in. It looks like shit. Maybe break up the zoning down there so you can encourage a tiny bit of commercial activity, since it's pretty much an ocean of residential neighborhoods that's blocked in by the Highway. Changing the name is a purely cosmetic move that will just serve to taint the name 'Redwood' in the eyes of the community. And I like Redwoods. They're a perfectly nice tree that have done nothing to deserve such a fate.
Help those neighborhoods out. Don't waste time with window dressing.
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