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<br /> Downtown® Town centers struggle —continued from page 1
<br /> Idea Exchange
<br /> a publication of the
<br /> Downtown Research&Development Center businesses in our downtown are a small community,you'd like to ip
<br /> 28 West 25th Street—8th Floor mom-and-pop establishments, and have a post office,a library, a village
<br /> New York,NY 10010
<br /> Phone:(22)228-0246•Fax:(212)228-0376 it's hard for them to get out to the store, maybe a community restau-
<br /> Email:info @DowntownDevelopment.com post office during the day." rant,the municipal government.
<br /> Website:www.DowntownDevelopment.com
<br /> Loss creates identity crisis Once you lose one, you run the risk
<br /> Publishing Staff: of losing another one, and over time,
<br /> Editor Jeanne O'Brien Coffey It's not just the inconvenience
<br /> (201)653-5414 —town centers without a post there's a downward spiral"
<br /> Editorial Director William Keenan Jr.,ext.112 office suffer an identity crisis. Battling a downward spiral
<br /> Customer Service Mary Pagliamli,ext.101 "Downtowns are notorious for hav- Unfortunately, that downward
<br /> Reprints and Permissions ing post offices, and we've lost spiral may have begun in Pittsford,
<br /> Mary Dalessandro,ext.103
<br /> ours," Murray says. `Our down- VT (pop. 3,000), Bruhn says. A
<br /> Publisher Margaret DeWitt,ext.106
<br /> town had a post office in it for few years ago, the town offices
<br /> Advisory Board:
<br /> more than 100 years.Whether it were moved out of the village cen-
<br /> Laurence A.Alexander,Downtown Research
<br /> &Development Center started in a feed ter. The
<br /> store or a drug Preservation
<br /> Peter Beronio,Englewood[NJ] g ��Downtowns are notorious on
<br /> Economic Development Corp. store, we've Trust is now
<br /> for having post offices, and
<br /> Toni-Lynn n ni-LynnTrottier,CSM,Rutland[VT] always had one, assisting local
<br /> Downtown Rutland Partnership and now we don't we've ve lost ours." advocates with
<br /> Kent Robertson,
<br /> St.Cloud[MN]State University anymore." a battle to keep
<br /> Laverne Stegall,Jackson[Ms] "A post office is a vital part of a the post office from following suit.
<br /> Capital Center Inc. vibrant town center,"adds Paul This isn't the first case the
<br /> Downtown Idea Exchange®is published twice monthly by the Bruhn, executive director of the Preservation Trust has gotten
<br /> Downtown Research&Development Center.The Center pro-
<br /> vides news,information and analysis for successful downtown Preservation Trust of Vermont. "The involved in. The disappearance of 40
<br /> revitalization through its newsletters,books and reports.
<br /> post office is a really important post offices from town centers in
<br /> ir ©2002 Alexander Communications Group,Inc.All
<br /> rights reserved No part of this publication may be piece of what attracts people to vil- Vermont has become such an issue
<br /> ik reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or trans-
<br /> mated in any form or by any means,electronic, lage centers.Especially if you're in that the organization has published
<br /> mechanical,photocopying or otherwise,without the prior writ-
<br /> ten permission of Alexander Communications Group.
<br /> Subscription Order Form: Handling post office parking problems
<br /> Please start/renew my one-year
<br /> subscription to Downtown Idea Parking needs are a common rationale the post office offers for
<br /> Exchange for$197.* moving a facility out of downtown.Here are some ideas from A Local
<br /> Official's.Guide to Developing Better Community Post Offices for chal-
<br /> NAME lenging the parking needs argument: -
<br /> TITLE • Survey the number of post office customers that walk, car pool,
<br /> FIRM/ORGANIZATION or park while running various errands in the downtown area(i.e., shared
<br /> ADDRESS parking) and encourage the USPS (United States Postal Service).to.
<br /> decrease the customer parking needs accordingly.
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<br /> • Encourage the USPS to consider sharing the city route vehicle
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<br /> parking spaces that remain empty for most of the day with the cus-
<br /> FAX tomer spaces.
<br /> EMAIL N15 • If the parking requirements include community growth projec-
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