The Warped Tour brought 30,000 people to the town. Was this festival
near those levels?
I agree with Werner. This plan was absolutely 100% against the idea
of tourism. It's amazing that a town with a beach, a boardwalk, and
history would abandon such features that other towns could only dream
about.
On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:22 PM, charlie wrote:
"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.
Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
