Downtown Goshen needs more restaurants
From the Brookings Institute study, “Turning Around Downtown: Twelve Steps to Revitalization:”
Walkable urbanism starts with urban entertainment venues and retail that are within walking distance of one another. It must be in place before households can be enticed to move downtown. It all starts, as in any real estate development, with market demand.
- Restaurants. A crucial part of any urban entertainment strategy, downtown restaurants provide lunch for the office workers and dinner for the night-time crowd, broadening their appeal and financial success.
Well, we need more restaurants in Downtown Goshen. We have quite a few right now (6-8, depending how you count), but none open past 9 pm and 2 that have closed in the past 6 months. One that burned down less than a month ago.
To that end, I’ve started a campaign at The Point, a cool web 2.0 site I blogged about before. The campaign is this: if we can raise $10,000, I’ll start a fund that will award the money raised to the restaurateur who submits the best plan as decided by the donors of the money. If you too want a sweet new restaurant in Downtown Goshen, sign up to contribute — you don’t have to pay unless we raise the full $10,000.
