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Quote Originally Posted by Bison"FANatic" View Post
Basically you take Broadway shut it down to traffic. Cobblestone the whole thing and basically make a urban park out of it. During the day you have all the businesses and business traffic with easy access by walking where ever to restaurants and other shops and in the evenings the bars that are there and pop up once its built turns it into a hot spot at night. QUOTE]

They've already tried that once in the last 10 years and it was an epic fail.
If they are going to do stuff half ass down town they are going to get half ass results. You can put lip stick on a pig but it is still a pig. Now if you change the atmosphere around the pig then it becomes a whole other animal. The street fair proves that if you give people some good entertainment and something to do they will show up to downtown Fargo (alot of times in 95+ heat). It would take some time but they could turn downtown into a place more people want to go.

If you are ever down towards the Quad cities swing by and check out "The District" it is worth it.