I say screw downtown.That is what I would like to see done to downtown.I do not live there,I do not like seeing money being wasted on decorating sidewalks so some drunk can slur out "dat a petty sidewalk",I do not like seeing the same patch of raod being redone two or three times,I do not like seeing drug dealers and bums hanging out on the same corner every night and cops not arresting them or dispursing them.
Downtwon is Bum magnet.The parking in downtown is horrible.And if you go over to 1st and boulder at nights and sometimes during the day you can see drug deals going on,and there is always suspicious activities going down under that 1st and Boulder bridge.there is hardly anything open after 5pm except for bars.
If downtown wants to do something to improve itself it needs to do the following.
1st.kick out all the soup kitchens and facilities that cater to bums.Nobody likes being pestered or threatened for drug or alcohol money.And put armrest on all the benches in downtown.Enact a locked dumpster ordinaince and enact some anti-vagrancey laws.
2nd. Encourage businesses to provide parking for their customers.Why go to downtown when you can go anywhere in tulsa and not have to pay to park?
3rd.Have downtown offer something other than bars after 5pm.
4th.Build a real park, not something that will be a bum barracks (a small section on a city block with over a several benches and trees) in 5-10 years.People might want a place to take their kids to have fun instead of being there for story time.(If you been around a lot of bums you will hear all kinds of stories).