Downtown currently offers a variety of appealing shops and entertainment districts.
But without a parking and transportation program that fits downtown's urban character, shopper and visitor experiences will be restricted and discouraging. Correspondingly, until urban mobility serves to enhance redevelopment goals, the city will not realize the tax revenues for which redevelopment plans were implemented, and taxpayers will continue to carry a disproportionate tax burden that downtown redevelopment was intended to relieve. Appealing pockets of activity exist downtown. Retail shops, art galleries, antique and thrift shops, restaurants and nightclubs abound. However, these individual niche markets, grouped as they are, are spread out too far for each to benefit from their collective appeal.