{"id":470,"date":"2018-12-03T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2018-12-03T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:16:26","slug":"going-forward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/going-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There isn\u2019t a specific formula for what separates a successful downtown revitalization from one that fails. \u201cThere are national trends towards places that offer experiences and authenticity and a local focus and that are \u2018cool,\u2019\u201d said Steve Lindley, executive director of the Capital Markets group for commercial real estate services leader Cushman &amp; Wakefield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though he pointed out that the \u201ccool\u201d factor is largely subjective, one thing is clear: While downtowns used to be places where people would need to visit to go shopping, with the rise of e-commerce, this is no longer the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDowntowns are not the way they used to be,\u201d said Roger Brooks, Peoria resident and president of the Destination Development Association. \u201cThe future of downtowns is where we go after work and on weekends. Downtowns are transforming into the places we go as residents.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Downtown Chandler, Scottsdale, and Glendale are all working on transforming their downtowns into places in which creative, educated people would choose to work, live, and play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The downtowns that will thrive, Brooks said, are the ones that will keep up with those changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn\u2019t a specific formula for what separates a successful downtown revitalization from one that fails. \u201cThere are national trends towards places that offer experiences and authenticity and a local focus and that are \u2018cool,\u2019\u201d said Steve Lindley, executive director of the Capital Markets group for commercial real estate services leader Cushman &amp; Wakefield. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/threedowntowns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}