Thanks Jennifer. I just can't get a handle on what the following will mean for school systems: "And that means that three out of four home buyers will have no interest in a house in the suburbs with a good school system...." "No interest in a good school system" sounds ominous to me. In a message dated 12/29/2008 12:04:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jennifern...@yahoo.com writes:
Mario, The article is interesting and could be valid except we are missing a very necessary component unless the childless households are also retired. We do not have enough local industry in Asbury Park to support all of its residents. There are very few large scale walk-to jobs. Back in the day, Asbury Park had the phone company and the gas company. We do not have those types of jobs anymore. I would love to live and work in the same city. I would love to stop driving except when absolutely necessary. In order to create that type of city, we need to lure larger employers here. We have the buildings. We have the trains and we could have better buses or an in-city transit system. For a city to be healthy, it needs to have a balance of incomes. There needs to be affordable housing and reliable affordable transportation for the lower income workers. It really does need a good school system for the middle and lower income workers because otherwise it won't have balance in the distribution of the population. AP has a lot going for it especially location and the small town disguised as a city aspect. It is on a major transit route. It has one industry in tourism and entertainment. I also has small businesses and local professionals like Realtors, lawyers, doctors, etc. It does have the state office building too. That is definitely a half-full glass. If we want to fill the glass to the top then we need to attract larger businesses. That isn't impossible. There are great tax benefits for a business to open AP facilities. I looked into doing that when I was at Bank of NY. We were going to relocate our Manasquan operations office and our Bradley Beach branch to Grand Ave. We did that in Newburgh, NY and it made sense to do the same here. I don't know too much about schools so I'll leave that up to those who do. I do know communities. They work best when there is a mix. That is especially true for smaller cities. I think the glass could fill up. Jennifer ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
