Another travesty of small-minded self-interest from the so-called 'Anchorage Community Development Authority'.  "Community" my butt!  The ACDA actually represents little more than a small but politically powerful handful of rapacious downtown business owners and parking landlords willing to use every dirty, greedy and cronyistic tactic to increase their revenues, damn the long-term (and self-defeating) cost to downtown business activity in general.

This is the same "authority" that has been trying to kill the very successful Anchorage (Weekend) Market since its inception in the early 1990s, blaming it for their declining business, rather than facing up to the fact that the falling sales of many downtown businesses is really due to the diminishing interest among tourists and locals alike for the cheap, cookie-cutter made-in-China junk peddled by many of them.

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