Downtown businesses need to improve marketing in the entire region, especially to families. Downtown needs a neighborhood events section in the local media. Downtown events need better coordination, especially with adjacent neighborhoods. Downtown's safety and cleanliness need to be communicated to the regional community. Downtown issues are focused too much on short term and not enough on the long term.
Downtown needs transit, linkages, signage, and infrastructure to be truly family-friendly.
Downtown needs to balance uses so that commercial, residential, entertainment, and retail uses comfortably coexist. The inevitable conflicts need to be mediated for this vital Downtown mix to succeed. The City needs to be involved with the nurturing of the Downtown community as well as being a large component of the employment base. A civic center, such as a ceremonial city hall, would help civic pride and civic presence. Privacy Statement 2001 City of Austin, Texas .