How do you feel about Lubbock’s downtown?
I suspect I’m in the majority when I say I could care less about it. I barely have enough interest to write about downtown, other than noticing that it is constantly mentioned as a “priority.” While the area certainly has things to offer, there are plenty of other places in Lubbock where people actually want to spend their time—and those places could probably use attention too.
Three decades of talk about Lubbock’s Downtown
Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to find the earliest mentions of “downtown revitalization” in Lubbock news coverage. The answer came back: the late 1990s. Now think about that for a moment. While 1997 doesn’t sound that far away, it was almost 30 years ago.
I understand that Rome wasn’t built in a day. But shouldn’t something be revitalized in less than three decades?…