Quote Originally Posted by heyerdahl View Post
I have heard the quote Edgar is talking about from the Mayor several times. People around the country are always extremely curious how he gets a conservative city to vote for urban quality of life projects.

He says he tries sharing economic and quality of life reasons for focusing on the urban core, but when everything else has failed, he tells the naysayers: "We are trying to build a city that your kids and grandkids will choose to live in."

Just about every trend among younger people says that this is not smug rhetoric- it's true.
Saying you're building a city your kids and grand kids will want to live in is VERY different from saying you're solely focusing on downtown. And if one of the candidates weren't trying to make it a downtown versus neighborhoods campaign even the misquote wouldn't sound as bad. Downtown is the heart of any city and city neighborhood development is closely linked with what has been happening downtown. To fail to recognize that fact risks repeating the mistakes of the 60s through 80s.