Marketing and Transit: Pooling Resources
The Chamber of Commerce could help organize with a few other local businesses to improve the bus frequency/head-ways. The marketing around these services would be better suited using pooled resources.
Hypotheticals
A place for me to talk about hypothetical scenarios and theories. Everything in this section should be considered fiction and disregarded by all as fantasy.
Dickriding Authority won't get you Laid.
We must find a way to incentivize long-term investment ASAP, or we need to find another system. We have to start by demanding these changes, not asking kindly for the powers that be to grant them to us.
Marketing and Transit: Uniquely Intertwined
The value of proximity is rooted in convenience. The large retailers have this in spades and you must consider the ease of access to these big box stores. Now do not go building a huge parking lot in a downtown, that is not the takeaway here.
Goodyear East End: The Akron Terminal of the Future.
The East End has seen some strong improvement over the last decade. A few eateries, some small shops, a theater, and some additional retail space available. We are more interested about what lies behind it:
Coal to Nuclear: Eastlake Power Plant
Cities carry the obligation to provide services to their citizens at cost. Here is the thing about electricity production: it is a "public utility". We do realize that profit is the extraction of value from an economic process.
Waterfront Line: Re-open and Expand
Square it on the owners to re-lay the track or confiscate the Right-of-Ways. We gave these lands to literal robber barons for pennies on the dollar. The city can get aggressive with their demands, it is not like the rail company will come and rip up anymore track.
Problem with Research: Nobody Cares
Why do we care about people who benefit from people benefiting from the works of literal rail barons?