Because it’s summer and heat waves make me insane, I have been spending a lot of time in our lost-in-the-60s sister town to the south, Santa Cruz. The more time I spend in the little-beach-town-that-could, the more I realize what we’re missing in San Jose.
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Single Gal and Shopping
Where is a Single Gal to go if she wants to walk and shop? I know we are a suburb—with malls and mini-malls galore—but where is our downtown shopping? Where is our Union Square? They have bums and homeless people there too, but they also have big-time shops and street performers and it all works together in one place. Why don’t we try to create something like that now in San Jose?
The Single Gal and Living Downtown
So what comes first, the chicken or the egg? Would more people want to live downtown if there were more to do? Or will people wait to see what happens downtown before they invest their money into apartments and lofts? I believe that if there were masses of families, young people and baby-boomers living downtown, that the retail and entertainment would have to come to feed the demand.
News In Review: Be Prepared
Glennda Chui of the Mercury News reminds us that it’s best for cities to stick together to prepared in case of an emergency. According to the Merc, Dave Pandori may be preparing to enter the Mayor’s race.
