Lincoln's Near South neighborhood has been a frequent target of small revitalization and preservation efforts for years. Now that the City is conducting a blight study of the historic neighborhood, maybe it will get the TLC it deserves. My one concern, as I have expressed several times before, is the amount of area being declared blighted across Lincoln (sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for questionable reasons). How much energy can the City put into any of the blighted areas if so many areas are declared blighted? Or phrased another way, are we better off doing as we're doing now, and trying to offer incentives for redevelopment in a bunch of areas all at once? Or should we focus our efforts on only a couple areas at a time?
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They should have expanded the study further west to include A to G all the way to 10th street. The neighborhood pharmacist on 12th and G just went out of business (or moved) the other day.
I am not familiar with the rationale behind every blight declaration in Lincoln, but I think that focusing on near south is properly justified.
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