Eau Claire Make-Over

Before the City goes ahead and renovates Eau Claire Plaza, I have a bit of advice to City Council.

Step away from the drawing board and let the professionals do this. Lets put the creative people in charge and not city council.

We have seen that anything and everything that hints at the smell of fun in this city is quickly chased away when there is a whiff of interest by city council that they want into the room to add their two cents worth. City Council is like a cold shower. Good creative ideas simply wilt away, into boredom.

We need more public places and plazas downtown so that we not only think we are a world class city but be one.

The other question I would want asked, maybe as something to divert the attention of City Council from getting involved with the renovations to Eau Claire Plaza, is why the Olympic Plaza has been ceded to the drug dealers, crack addicts, and homeless?

Why did we have to spend the extra money and close off 17th Avenue SW for the Red Mile, when we have a perfectly good public space to celebrate in, called the Olympic Plaza?

Why does it sit empty so much, and for so long in a city of 1,000,000,000?


Thanx Norm Greenfield