A lot has changed in the 14 years that Katrina Gough has lived near downtown Wichita. “I used to be too afraid to walk downtown and enjoy everything we had down here,” said Gough, who works at WaterWalk. “Now it feels very comfortable… Walking down here, that’s the joy of being so close to downtown, and I think a lot more people would take advantage of it, but we’ve got this weird divide in Wichita where east side doesn’t want to come too far west, or west side doesn’t come too far east. “It doesn’t make it easy to get everyone involved.” During a roundtable discussion April 1, Gough and other Emerging Leaders participants agreed that downtown is critical to Wichita’s success, but that the city has adopted a spread out, east-versus-west mentality.
Source: Wichita Business Journal
