Nashua Vision 2020 Should Focus on Nashua as Destination City
Sunday, September 19th, 2010Guest Commentary in The Telegraph, Nashua, New Hampshire
“Organizations like Habitat for Humanity are fully invested in helping people become homeowners and in partnering with the city and other nonprofits in revitalization efforts. These are the type of efforts that will increase the pool of residents who are firmly invested in working toward executable goals over the next 10 years and beyond.”
Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity President Ed Lopez.
A commendable effort to create a 10-year blueprint for the city of Nashua with input from its residents began last March. One objective was to ensure executed decisions rather than ideas embedded permanently in discussion if not altogether forgotten.
Success requires these goals to be re-evaluated on a regular basis over the next 10 years, and it behooves the city’s leaders to encourage residents, the private sector and nonprofit organizations to work collectively toward them.
One goal Nashua should focus on is becoming a “destination city.” This idea might be met with some reluctance, yet in some ways the city has already moved in that direction, only to a limited extent. That extent is not comprehensive enough to nurture resilience through economic fluctuations.
Many New England residents will shop in Nashua but are not anchoring their travel into our city on anything else. For example: (more…)
