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Summary Number: 65 |
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Make meaningful improvements, that along with good promotion, will enhance the region's image and reputation |
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| "Tucson looks low-income, with run-down business fronts, an unsafe image - people don't want to stay so we have a revolving community." |
| "Tucson has a serious self-confidence problem. People here do not see the many positive aspects of living here. Tucson is a gem that its residents fail to recognize." |
| "Not too late to save our identity � don't blade the desert" |
| ". . .no bright CEO is going to allow expansion into Tucson and have his employees settle for the third world education." |
| "Make Tucson fall in love with itself" |
| "Burnish, don't tarnish, Tucson's reputation." |
| "While the city is filled with tacky strip malls and way too many billboards, the surrounding environment is gorgeous and humbles me continually. The light shows are like nowhere else in the world." |
| "Where is the shared identity?" |
| "Tucson feels stuck with one foot in the past (small town) and only one toe of the other foot testing the waters of the future. Tucson needs a vision and clear identity, other than 'It's not Phoenix.'" |
| "The stigma of Tucson being a 'small town' . . . " |
| "Unabated sprawl" |
| "Tucson has been known as a minimum wage town for years." |
| "Without the mountains and desert, we're Lubbock" |
| "I would like to see us as the best not the worst in the nation." |
| "They should be creating an image of Tucson as the last great western town, instead of a city with lots of golf courses and resorts for rich people." |