By Darren DaRonco | Arizona Daily Star
Tear down La Placita, keep bikes away from the streetcar and build on what you already have.
Those were just some of the suggestions a national panel offered to local government and business leaders on how to continue growing Tucson’s downtown area.
More than 100 people representing business, government and neighborhood interests crowded a meeting room at the Tucson Convention Center Friday morning to hear an Urban Land Institute advisory panel’s preliminary findings on how to bolster downtown.
ULI is a national group of real estate, development and other business professionals who offer advice on land development issues.
Tucson, Pima County, Rio Nuevo and others kicked in a combined $130,000 for the group’s five-day program to figure out what to do with downtown properties, especially the ones surrounding the TCC and directly west of Interstate 10.
