StreetScape: Cutting More Slack?
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker DeVille
Charleston Gazette staff writer Jim Balow wrote an excellent historical look back at the intial hopes for Slack Plaza (above) in the Monday paper, the disappointments over the space through the years and its current denuded, forcibly depopulated state. Read the piece, it’s worth it — and is a good example of the kind of important civic discussions that can have such an impact upon the way a downtown looks and feels. I continue to feel the plaza needs re-invention from the get-go. Aside from the important questions of safety and comfort in the plaza itself, raised by the Mayor, the layout forces you into an annoying zig-zag, obstacle-running circuit as you move from downtown to the mall, the two foci of life in downtown Charleston.
