Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Seattleites, seems somehow tainted. The city fathers have refused to relax the Sunday curfew on liquor. But these are minor matters, and most of Seattle has pitched in with a will, dolled up the city to a fare-thee-well. Trees and colorful news kiosks have sprouted on downtown streets; and parking meters now come in pastel hues. Some 131 projects are being renovated to give the old town a facelift...
...hard time getting anybody to do it. But last week the planners could chalk up action in three widely separated areas: > Tackling the problem of the old and lonely, the 2,300,000-member United Church of Christ announced plans to build a string of nonsectarian "retirement centers" in downtown areas of cities, in villages-and near resort communities. The projects, for which the church hopes to get longterm, low-interest federal loans, will be designed for oldsters over 62 whose incomes are as low as $1,800 a year. In Lorain County. Ohio, for example, the church will...
Some planners, who talk not of cities any more but of "metropolitan areas" that include both core and satellite suburbs, consider such moves as IBM's a help toward relieving downtown congestion. But other urban planners are alarmed. If every business concluded that the city's conveniences are not worth the disadvantage of congestion, the death of the city is in sight...
...downtown hotel is feeling the pinch of a new kind of competition: the motel. For years glued to the roadsides of the nation, the motel is moving into town. San Francisco, where only one conventional hotel has been built in 30 years, has acquired 52 "motor inns," as the intown motels are called nowadays; in Manhattan, which last summer got its first new hotel in 30 years, there are three big new motor inns and two more abuilding; a new motor inn in Washington, six blocks from the White House, is one of five built in the past five years...
Motor inns are cheaper to build (relatively fewer and more modest public rooms) and cheaper to run. With the savings, most new downtown motor inns can offer such added conveniences as a swimming pool, instant coffeemakers in the rooms, and free laundry machines. And if ice is needed for drinks, there is always a serve-yourself ice machine in a nearby corridor...