Hello All:
I live several blocks from the proposed Roosevelt Library project and support a mixed use with Library, coffee shop or resturaunt, day care, and housing built above. I would like the project to be developed with smaller locally based owner operated business. I am excited about this project and would like to see more mixed development projects built in the city. The city has the sewers, roads, and infrastucter built. We gain a tax base, and services for our community. To use the cliche "Its NO Brainer!"
Ken Bradley Corcoran Neighborhood
Jim Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
I'm surprised at Carol Becker's comments about
Roosevelt Library and mixed use. NO ONE has suggested
a laudromat or McDonalds be built with the library.
The suggestion, which the Library Board is pursuing,
is to build much-needed housing and PERHAPS one or two
retail spots for a cafe, coffee shop, or even child
care.
We should all know better than to speculate on what is
in a project without knowing the details. A simple
look at the library system's web site would have given
Carol the details on the proposal. I'm on the
Roosevelt Advisory Committee and have been discussing
the idea of mixed use since it was first publicly
brought up in March.
But more importantly, I think Libraries NEED to learn
from Barnes & Noble and the other successful book
store chains to make sure they don't lose their
patrons to the commercial centers. Obviously, the mix
of books and cafes works for them. It can also work to
increase the use of our libraries, where people don't
have to buy anything in order to participate in the
democracy Carol wants to happen there.
Jim Berg
Corcoran Neighborhood
Carol Becker said, "I was also thinking about the
Roosevelt Library proposal and how there is a proposal
to make it part of a mixed use development. ... The
Library isn't simply a Barnes and Noble, another store
to meet your daily needs, a warehouse of books. A
Library is a place where democracy happens. A Library
is a place where everyone is equal, everyone is
welcome, a place that provides knowledge and support
for everyone. It is a tie from our past to our
future, a place of permanence and strength in our
community. It reflects our values. It is a place that
defines who we are and who we will be."
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