My first impression of the neighborhood is that it is a neighborhood of hip people, restaurants, and nightlife. It’s not a hip area, but it’s definitely not “downtown,” either. I’m not sure why this is the case, but I’m glad I live in a city where the neighborhoods are more pedestrian-friendly.
I’ve lived in a few cities, but I’ve never lived in a neighborhood without sidewalks. In many places, sidewalks are a necessity for the convenience of pedestrians. In others, if you don’t have sidewalks, they aren’t even there. But the people and businesses in the neighborhoods I’ve lived in have never bothered to make sidewalks.
The reason for this is simple. It takes a lot of money to build a new sidewalk. And if you can’t find a way to make money from your sidewalk, you might as well just not build it. When I lived in South Bend, we had a problem with the sidewalks, but not much money. The city just built new ones anyway, and there were no complaints for years.
Some cities are trying to change that. For example, in many cities, sidewalks are being made with recycled materials and are made shorter to make sidewalks more accessible.
If you live in a city like New Orleans or Los Angeles, you have a fairly easy time finding a new sidewalk. This week, the city and contractor have officially completed the new sidewalk on the street in front of your house. You can see it in this week’s Time Magazine.
It is the first new sidewalk in the city in over twenty years. The contractor has spent the last year and half working on the project and it’s finally finished! The final cost will be between $50,000 to $100,000, depending on how much the contractor will demand of the city to complete the project.
I’m all for sidewalk making, I think it’s good that the city is going to make the sidewalk, but I have to ask, who is going to pay for that? Of course, it’s really up to you and your contractors to figure that out. I know there are some businesses that will pay for this project, especially if it’s on their property. This week we saw that Wal-Mart is a good candidate.
Wal-Mart is one of those small-scale, large-scale businesses that are definitely worth considering. You can get a lot of information about the city’s plans for the project and the estimated price tag on the project and even get a ton of information about the types of jobs that will need to be done, the different types of materials used, and the different types of construction technologies involved. I suspect that there is some overlap between the types of construction jobs that will be done.
This is a nice way to find out if you’re going to be spending a lot of money on a neighborhood. By asking the community about the needs of each neighborhood, you can find out in an easy way whether you’ll have enough money to finish the job.
I’m not sure if this is going to be a popular request, but I would like to know how much it would cost to put one of these on a street in my neighborhood.