reinventing downtown clearwater

Downtown Clearwater is still working on their effort to find an identity. Their five step process?

  1. Take advantage of existing geography & history
  2. Made more pedestrian-friendly
  3. Recruiting retail
  4. Residential construction
  5. Calendar of Events

Some of the plans in the five step process could be used in other areas seeking to find themselves.

3 comments - add to the conversation! → “reinventing downtown clearwater”


  1. GKR

    1 year ago

    As opposed to Tampa, at least they have a process. Tampa has been busy destroying their built history for the last 50 years, it is the worst place in the US to be a pedestrian, retail has left for exurbia, residential construction is dead, and the calendar of events centers around a wannabe pirate charade that tries to be Mardi Gras.


  2. pc

    1 year ago

    Less CoS storefronts maybe?
    Or at least some CoS storefronts that aren’t out of business?


  3. dreaming

    1 year ago

    too bad they had to destroy the village before they saved it. downtown clearwater had quite a few small merchants before the makeover, but they all died in the dust during construction. its a ghost town now.


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