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Too Scared To Shop
Ed, tell Doug Palmer that his plans for spending money to renovate a building for a Port of Trenton museum, or getting co-ed exercise studios going at the Y, or creating retail shopping that he had better clean up Trenton first. No one is going to come to Trenton to shop or exercise. It’s a war zone, it’s too damn dangerous.
Warning
It’s kind of a chicken-or-the-egg thing. If revitalization brings more people and more activity, those areas will become safer. If they are safer, people will come. Try to stay positive. —Ed. Note
posted by Trentonian Editor at
3:08 PM
3 Comments:
Geting this revitalization is a dream if people can't come to this City for fear of harm. Palmer should slow down his lofty dreams in a City that's struggling just to keep the basics going. These suggestions would be great where he lives, but not Trenton. The Obama administration has vowed transparency upon receiving these monies. They also demand job creation. No one is going to come to this City if people have no jobs, which leads to poverty, which creates crimes.
There won't be any museum visits or shopping and the only exercise anyone will get is running to keep from getting robbed. We need long standing jobs not quick fixes, designed to satisy the will of a political climber who caters to those that don't consider the poor in their equasion of economic development.
Isn't this the same idea they had for the Broad Street Bank. People
will come and the city will be safer. Well, all you yellow brick road dreamers, look at the Broad Street Bank now. It's turned into a drug dealers heaven. Most of the building is empty and the people who do live there are questionable at best. Problem being, when Palmer and his cash poor friends came up with this idea, they should have been a little more aware of the reality of such a project. Which as I see now, they still aren't.
Every place you look in Trenton, there's a plan to develop something. Something that's going to make it bigger, better, nicer, cleaner and more desirable for people to not only live here but want to do business here. Sure about that? Didn't think so, and Palmer kmows it. His underhanded plan to drive the poor from the city to make room for his desirable communities have at least one flaw, crime. Crime that is getting worse. Crime directly tied to economics, that exist because people are poor and disenfranchised. Palmer must make the city viable for all Trenton residents. The middle cass and the
poor must also be part of the equasion to bring this city to ?The "Capital of New Jersey". That would include all citizens of Trenton being considered. This theory would not allow Palmer the wiggle room he needs to manipulate
the system to his advantage.
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