Vop Osili: Decision to create district must be made by many
The opportunity to create an Economic Enhancement District is an opportunity to further our community’s conversations about the future of downtown.
The opportunity to create an Economic Enhancement District is an opportunity to further our community’s conversations about the future of downtown.
This means investments in affordable housing, new work opportunities, public safety, and enhancing downtown’s appearance and attractiveness.
We can and will address the concerns of citizens and business owners grappling with the damage to public and private spaces caused by last weekend’s violence. But we cannot do so without simultaneously wrestling, and besting, the historically tolerated race disparities that lie at the heart of that violence.