Best Comment Of The Day: Post-Cleanup Vision

Anonymous has left the Following comment on the post "State Department Visitor From Italy Given Tour O Gowanus Area By Members Of FROGG":

Yes visitors from around the world are interested in how we cleanup and reuse this 19th century industrial canal; which even today serves the community as an open sewer.

But in making our post-cleanup vision for this area, we need to recognize that the canal and it's early industrial past may serve as a much greater asset to the community that a bunch of tall modern housing developments.

The Gowanus is already a destination place and is a valuable asset as such. So how do we build on that aspect rather than turning it into a private enclave of residential buildings claiming the street ends? How do we open up the minds of the city planners to a better vision for this place?