I read with interest and an open mind the N&R’s front-pager on Bryan Foundation president and former Mayor Jim Melvin. Here’s what jumped out at me:
“Did we make mistakes? Heck, yeah,” he said.
Pushing for a downtown convention center in 1979 was a mistake. Thankfully, he said, voters turned down the idea.
“It would have been too small,” he said. “It was just improperly done and improperly sold to the public.”
A project ‘that was improperly done and improperly sold to the public’ —imagine that. Yet downtown boosters like Melvin et. al keep coming up with them year after. Kinda like Randall Kaplan’s downtown hotel, which —thankfully —- appears to be dead.
