If Downtown Mesa is to be eligible for new investor tax credits then it's got to get classified as a neglected. blighted, and low-income area for both 'Opportunity Zones" and Redevelopment Areas (RDA) by the Mesa Office of Economic Development. Vibrant? No. Distressed? Yes.
City planners had no idea what they were doing for years. Whoa!
Has anything changed when we have the same of characters who want to transform DTMesa their way, even after a successive history of failures and half-baked Pie-In-The-Sky schemes like $75,000 spent on proposals for City Center and a $150M bogus Bond for an ASU satellite campus here - with no alternatives presented except for their only one > ASU. _________________________________________________________________________
That's exclusionary for people who do not own or use smartphones.
How will the city - and other un-named institutions - use YOUR DATA from texting to inanimate objects?
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According to an article by East Valley Tribune go-to reporter Wayne Schutsky, " The objects initially will be preloaded with basic knowledge about themselves and the area to share with users. They will accumulate more information over time as more people interact with them.
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| What's missing in the picture? People! |
In addition to providing visitors with information, the objects also will gather feedback about what users would like to see from downtown organizations.
The objects will “collect input from the public about how they feel about art in Mesa and downtown to gather input for our strategic planning,” said Cindy Ornstein, executive director of the Mesa Arts Center. . .
She added, “You are helping to inform Mesa Arts Center, Downtown Mesa Association and other institutions with information that will help us think about how we will respond to our community’s desires.”
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3 days ago - Lampposts, park benches and buildings are not typically the best conversationalists, but those inanimate objects will soon come to life in downtown Mesa with the help of the Hello Lamp Post project. The interactive digital art project – which debuted in Bristol, England, in 2013 and has since made its way...
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Go talk to a lamp post or a park bench, or maybe even a building in Downtown Mesa, Arizona. No, we're not joking. Mesa Arts Center's latest art...
Hello Lamp Post, a playful work of interactive public art by PAN Studios in London, invites you to pause in your tracks and interact via text message with everyday street objects like lamp posts, benches, buildings and drains. The project, which has only visited one other U.S. city prior to its installation in Mesa, includes 32 ...
Hello Lamp Post, a playful work of interactive public art by PAN Studios in London, invites you to pause in your tracks and interact via text message with everyday street objects like lamp posts, benches, buildings and drains. The project, which has only visited one other U.S. city prior to its installation in Mesa, includes 32 ...
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Hearing voices? Company creates lampposts and bus stops that 'come alive' and can TALK
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