Wichita downtown boom could be over before it starts
As Wichita moves towards the release of the plan for the revitalization of its downtown, urban planners -- both local and out-of-town -- tell us that there's a big demand for downtown living. People are tired of suburban living, they say. The recent draft presentation by the city's planning firm Goody Clancy contained bullet points like "who favor living and working in vibrant downtowns" and "and they are part of broad demographic trends that are much more 'downtown friendly' ...e.g., almost two-thirds of Wichita’s households include just one or two people." Or, as "uber-geographer" Joel Kotkin wrote in the Wall…