DRI – Downtown Revitalization Initiative

by Contributor | August 24, 2017 11:15 am

To The Editor:
We have all heard about this I’m sure. We have all heard or read how our neighbor, the city of Oswego, has received money, lots of it, to accomplish its plan.

Here in our city of Fulton, we have a group assembled to try and accomplish the same thing.

They have tried once before and now they are trying again. I applaud them for their effort.

The big problem I have is that there seems to be group that was organized to help benefit our city.

It is called the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce.

Yes, they appear to be doing what they were formed to do with one and maybe two big problems.

The first one was the moving of the farmers’ market out of downtown and across the river next to the lake.

Which, in 10 or 15 years, will be a great spot for a second farmers’ market – but not now. We are trying to bring people into our downtown, not take them out of our downtown area.

We should have moved it to South First Street and blocked off South First Street from Cayuga to Rochester and put the venders in the street like they do in most cities.

Then we would have three parking areas for the customers and our seniors at the Towers wouldn’t have to take a bus to an event that many of them enjoyed.

This would all happen on Saturday then on Sunday do the same thing only with crafts and flea market vendors.

Bring life into our downtown, area don’t take it away.

Now I heard a rumor today that the same organization is planning on moving Tunes in June over across the river also.

Now this is just a RUMOR it is not FACT. You have to stop RUMORS before they become FACT.

So, we have one group that is trying to revitalize our downtown with plans and money and we have another that seems to be trying to do just the opposite.

It’s not too late to change things for next year.

Frank Castiglia Jr.

Source URL: https://oswegocountytoday.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/dri-downtown-revitalization-initiative/

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