This is a new spin on Fort Wayne. The harm to downtown economical development is the number of strip joints in the city. The voices from the radio called them SOB, sex oriented businesses. The lack of criminal enforcement to protect the city from permissive criminal activity cultivate an environment for such activity. Families will protest these areas by avoiding such areas, that build bars for more drinking and irresponsible behavior. Building a baseball stadium downtown will encourage such businesses and not shopping. The more family friendly shopping activity is located in Jefferson Pointe.
The voices on the radio station were Matt Kelty who is running for Mayor and Charley Butcher. It's amazing how fast this story is flying on the blog. After I posted this story FWOB placed the press release on his site. ADvance Indiana gave a hat tip to Fort Wayne Observed. I would think, Christopher Mann, campaign worker of the Kelty for Mayor campaign, would be the one who is driving this story you think?