Excerpt from “Downtown Voices: Creating a Sustainable Downtown,” August 2004: “During the past two decades, many large scale projects in downtown Phoenix have been on a fast track, not leaving sufficient time for a thoughtful and well developed planning process. Any truly thoughtful planning process should take the necessary time to develop well-designed projects that will sustain over the long-term. We should acknowledge, and learn from, the mistakes that have been made with the fast-track approach we have taken in designing many of our major — and not particularly successful — downtown developments. Our motto should be: Plan Slowly; Build Quickly.”
Downtown Voices Coalition 