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The Brooksville Vision Foundation shares its name, more or less, with a defunct and failed organization called the Visioning/Strategic Planning Initiative.
It also has the same goal as that long-gone group — making downtown Brooksville a hub of commerce and culture.
But here is what the new foundation does not share with either its old namesake or the many other committees and task forces of the past two decades that have tried and failed to, for example, attract a single decent downtown restaurant that stays open after dark: The support of business leaders such as Cliff Manuel (engineering, development), Tommy Bronson (mining, development), Jim Kimbrough (banking, development) and Robert Buckner (real estate, development).
Yep, this is new, very new. In my memory, none of the big wheels in Brooksville have been what you could call spirited cheerleaders for downtown revitalization. A few of them have seemed downright dismissive of the idea.
Before discussing what may have changed their minds, let's mention something else different about this vision committee: It actually shows signs of getting things done.
For the full article, visit the St. Petersburg Times.
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