"The "Plan" was not created with attracting visitors in mind. Tourism, events,
etc were notconsidered or accounted for. The Beach and commercial components
are to be for the use of the "condo dwellers"."
I agree, i think a lot of the boardwalk stores, food, and other
attractions are aimed at being worthy enough for these million dollar condos.
There for sure will be high class places, aimed to please these high end condo
buyers. Although, i think many aspects of the boardwalk will catter to a
typical boardwalk. You can have a mix of both, and claim the happiness of
different groups all at once.
With todays events, you have to wonder. If the roadwork were the way it
was before, would the event still have parking problems? I say yes. I
remember a few years back when i was in highschool and i'd go to the Warped
Tour (a concert of sorts), the streets were always packed with no parking. Now
this is going back 6 years before any roadwork had begun. Parking appears to
have always been an issue. Now it's worse, becasue parking spaces were lost.
You couldnt have gained any, but you didn't have to loose any either.
Places like The Wonder Bar and the Stone pony attrack a lot of cars on
certain nights. These buildings are sitting in the mist of a changing
enviorment. They don't seem to fit in 100 percent. In a few years, will they
still be there? If they arn't then things may go along smoothly (not sure how
smooth). But becasue they are still there, there almost in the way, or a
blockage of sorts causing insanity. It's not that the deisgn is bad, it's just
different then what these buildings came out of.
The design isn't designed in the same ways that the previous one was.
The Convention hall and Casino are huge buildings. However, they may not need
as much parking as everyone thinks they will need. Why? Becasue from the way
things were planed, its possiable these buildings were not to be used as much
as they had been. Not to the max, not to capacity. But maybe below capacity!
They can't take them down. They know there would be hell to pay if they tried
to, or did. These are just thoughts.. Clearly i don't know any information,
or claim to know what's going on! Whats everyone else think?
I like the lights, the sidewalks. The plaza in front of Convention hall
is nice. I didn'tget my curved sidewalk around HoJo back, but i like the new
courtyard a lot. I also consider it to be sitll be "open space" like what was
there previously. I think that area can now hold a lot of people. standing,
walking thru. Compared to before, everyone had to squeeze thrue that 10 foot
wide walkway around Hojo?! Now you can have groups of people coming off the
sidewalk and heading straight for the boardwalk.
On one side they cut back the openness. Yet on the other, they opened
things up in aspects.
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Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
