Thanks To the Gloucester Daily Times

I had an idea for a flowerbox competition for the Downtown Merchants that would be fun and to showcase the beauty that the Downtown Merchants put forth and many of us walk by every day without notice.

When you stop and look around you’ll see that many in our Downtown community really make a concerted effort to beautify and make it a great place.

Anyway I’ve put together a slideshow of the different flowerboxes that our Downtown folks put out to make all our lives a little brighter. It’s a thank you to them for trying to do the best they can and a recognition of their efforts.

What many people are starting to realize is that The Waterfront may be our soul but Downtown is our heart. It seems that the newer councilors and Mayor understand the importance to linking the two and bringing Gloucester back to a great place. A place where mixed uses are embraced, feed off and support each other. This mayor seems to have accomplished in a couple months what previous attempts at harbor planning have failed at. Drawing out as close to a consensus and community values as possible and bringing those ideas out in public forums to tie our City back together- Downtown our heart, and The Waterfront our Soul.

Thanks to the Times for supporting The GoodMorningGloucester Downtown Flowerbox competition. You can read the Times piece here.

By Sunday I’ll be sweeping through Downtown to see if any of the merchants have made any changes or put out new boxes. Monday morning the slideshow will display eveyone’s flowerboxes and the poll will be put up in the right hand column of the blog which will run through the 30th of the month.