I enjoy downtown. It’s come a long way from what it used to be. Seems more vibrant. I feel like I’m in a city when I’m downtown but I’m from Carmel for what it’s worth. I want our transportation to get better. And we lack shopping for myself and for visitors. We have plenty of housing but no retail to attract people to want to be there – from small shops to bigger stores. In some ways this response is surface-level because that’s my relationship with downtown. I just came back from NYC and it was trashy. I hated it. Our downtown is clean. People think it’s trashy but compared to other cities its pristine.

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