Arkansas City officials, hoping to bring new life to the downtown area, will ask local citizens for their ideas during a special public forum next week. The city, along with the Arkansas City Area Chamber of Commerce and Cowley First, the county’s economic development department, will host a public “visioning session” from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Burford Theatre. City Planner Josh White said that a group of students from Kansas State University plan to tour the downtown area Friday, visit several of the buildings and talk to business owners. “Just to see what is in our downtown, and what our downtown has to offer,” White said
Source: Cowley CourierTraveler
