The streetcar is beginning to look a bit like revitalization. Click on the link for a Daily Wildcat Summary of development. According to the Downtown Tucson Partnership, between 2008 and 2013 roughly 600 million has either been spent or committed to development in the core with perhaps much more to come. That’s hopeful, because taxes on that development will be needed to cover the public subsidy the street car and maybe a little more. Ridership was never intended to cover its cost density. It was intended to exist in a deficit. As surrounding historic neighborhood become impacted by overlapping commercial, how will they hang on to their residential flavor. How do they become magnets f
or preservation and serve as a poetic counterbalance to commercial exuberance? How do we make downtown not only a fun place to play, but a great place to live?
Streetcar revitalizes downtown Tucson
September 19, 2012 by Bill Ford
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