In chairing the PBIA this year it is my goal to engage other organizations and to stop reinventing the wheel when it comes to downtown topics. (How many websites? How many marketing schemes? How many clean, safe & beautification projects? It’s astounding….) Mathias and I were trying to do a count of downtown stakeholder organizations and stopped at 16. There seems to be a new one every month, and we all seem to like acronyms and numerals. And alliteration. Are we a community of such talented, motivated organizers and activists that instead of utilizing existing structures and organizations we just make our own group?

I want a real inventory of who’s doing what downtown, the people and the groups. Who do you work with on downtown issues? What groups have you heard of?