Once designed to get people in and out as efficiently as possible, downtown city centers have seen a change in direction in recent decades. “If you look at communities across the country, there was this mass exodus out of the downtowns and suburbia was growing,” said Gary Janzen, who is director of public works for the city of Wichita, “but there’s a real energy now in most cities our size, and we’ve seen it in Wichita. “There’s a lot of dynamic things happening with retail, with business, with commercial, with living — we’ve got a lot of residential living downtown now, and there’s a lot of demand for that to continue.”
Source: Wichita Business Journal
