Midge McCauley in the news

from the Memphis Commercial Appeal (4/24):

CCDC unveils new retail strategy
Cassandra Kimberly, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.

"Apr. 24--The Center City Development Corp. has a new strategy that may turn Downtown into a retail mecca.

On Wednesday, the CCDC reviewed a Downtown Retail Strategy plan that called for a refined retail focus area, a more diverse range of shops and restaurants and a jumping point to implement it all." ...

"While Downtown's recent resurgence has been marked by spikes in residential development and population growth, retail has lagged. In 2007, the CCDC, a CCC-affiliated board, hired Economics Research Associates to develop a $97,000 retail development strategy for Downtown and a retail growth strategy for the Central Business Improvement District." ...

" "For a city to be healthy, the core must be healthy," said ERA principal Margaret McCauley. As we get Main Street healthier, the other sections will get healthier with it."

To do that, she said, automobile traffic must return to Main. With traffic coming both ways on the road, the added light and population would welcome shoppers.
"Cars are a great way of adding security," she said. "I took a walk down Main Street, and it was 10 minutes be-tween trolleys. The trolleys were the only light on that street. Boy, is that foreboding." " ...

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