If we want a Strong Town, we must stop tilting the playing field against the small businesses, against the local entrepreneur.
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A proposed waterpark next to Mall of America is in trouble. And the city that wasn’t supposed to be “on the hook” for the project very much is.
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It’s getting harder and harder to prop up an economy that’s locked up trillions of dollars in the suburban experiment. We got here by not learning history’s lessons. Will we now heed history’s warnings?
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We’re getting another strip mall out on the edge of town, right next to the half-occupied strip mall built in 2007 before the last financial crisis.
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Whether we go back to work in offices or not, the commercial real estate market can’t go back to the crazy levels it was. Not without huge damage to society.
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If we want a Strong Town, we must stop tilting the playing field against the small businesses, against the local entrepreneur.
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Local communities have been induced to sacrifice their own stability in order to pursue growth. We now need to stabilize our places with a Strong Towns approach.
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Financially, public pension funds are finished. There are two important reasons we need to admit this now…and find a way forward together.
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Everything about how we live our lives as Americans is about to change dramatically. The sooner we come to grips with that, the quicker we can get to work build Strong Towns.
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The more efficient we make our systems, the more fragile they become. To make our cities stable and prosperous, our development pattern needs to become less efficient.
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A retrenchment in the stock market will be devastating to our cities. It’s also inevitable and, in some ways, necessary.
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