"Don White" wrote in message
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Hey JimH... did you catch the PBS HD program 'Making Sense/? Cleveland'
last night?
Interesting story about the flight to the suburbs in that area, and the
battle to entice middle class back etc.
Interesting how the cycle repeats itself...the older suburb of Euclid now
facing the same decline experienced in inner city areas as people move
farther out into the cornfields building new communities.
One neat development was in Westlake I believe...an urban streetscape type
of high density development that gives people a feeling of living in a
real city out in the country.
Another concept took place in Hough?? where new large suburb type houses
were built in a rundown area and offered a 15 year tax abatement to
attract 'professional people' back. You have to be pretty gutsy to be
the first one to sign up for that program.


They could substitute "Rochester" for "Cleveland" and the program would be
the same.