BIRP to Hold Public Forum Addressing Baxter Street Woes

Heritageville’s Baxter Street is still struggling well into the twenty-first century, and the needs of the neighbourhood and its residents are seemingly insurmountable. Vacant lots, few shops and crap restaurants are predominant features of Baxter Street. But what can be done to improve life in this economically depressed area?
  In 2015 the Orville Corporation was commissioned to spearhead efforts to change the public’s negative perceptions of the Baxter Street corridor. The following year Orville infused venture, corporate, and municipal capital into both the townie/trust-fund market as well as upper-end franchise prospectors with a pungeonary, a CTS centre, a SetUp™ boutique, and an Ancestral Confrontation Lab, as well as a Tauntini’s franchise. Orville had been able to map out a desired blueprint for change but has had questionable success in implementing permanent improvements in the area.
  Focusing on youth was another aspect thought crucial. But civic engagement programmes such as a youth fútbol league had the deleterious effects of bringing hooliganism, gambling, and parental altercations to the neighbourhood. Not only that, but none of the league teams knew how to score, and tended to trade valuable players away to street gangs. So much for “engaging youth.”
  What about Urban Agriculture? The poppy garden and makeshift drug lab of Jared Gutts saw an end to that. The “Mr. H” containment dome debacle certainly did not help Baxter’s negative perceptions either.
  What about Vacant Lot Beautification? “No!” say the ego activists of BärteHansa. Boarded-up shacks and lots full of rubble are “historic,” you see. Don’t even get them started on non-functional railroad trestles.
  And so, we are all at an impasse between Orville’s creative (if imperfect) solutions, the paratonic paternalism of BärteHansa, and the thumb-sitting dotards of City Hall. Solutions?
  Well, John Q. Public, it’s your turn! Orville CEO Johnny Gutts is sponsoring a Public Input Session, where your two cents is welcome as part of a collaborative process with Orville, BärteHansa, Heritageville city commissioners, and the general public for developing the Baxter Image Rehabilitation Project (BIRP) 2022 Plan. Your input is vital to the existence of Baxter Street itself.
  The meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 31 at 1:00pm at
P-Bones Pungeonary, 1051 Baxter Street, Heritageville. Masks and refreshments will be provided.