Power in Numbers/ Unanimous Vote
By Sean Cummings on Nov 6 2009 at 3:41 PM
New Orleans:
I am 100% convinced that your immense support and letters to the City Council members over the past week proved decisive in causing the City Council to rezone the riverfront for Crescent Park, the $30 Million first phase of Reinventing the Crescent. It was a unanimous 6-0 vote, and two Council-members showed me folders with a thick stack of your e-mails on one side and 10 naysayers on the other. They were a bit blown away, and I ,frankly, am a bit wiped out. But let’s just say, with all good humor, that you properly motivated them !
As we look immediately ahead, I see the end from the beginning and it is as stunning as it is good. A lifetime opportunity. You have made possible perhaps the most transformative, most beneficial project in this city in decades. It will elevate the quality of life here in a major way. Locals will be reminded why we choose to live here. Millions of tourists will enjoy a new, discreet reason to visit our city or stay one extra day. Tens of thousands of young entrepreneurs and artisans will be drawn to our new narrative. Ours is a joyful place. A creative culture of invention. With world class excellence, and the power of great design to uplift the human spirit.
Please continue to help us. I and our design team, though the best in the world, will need help in the 60 days to come. You can follow the project at this new site, scope it out on Twitter and friend us on Facebook. We think you’ll agree that the site is almost as uncommonly beautiful and well architected, thanks to Trumpet and Bond PR, as the renderings of the riverfront themselves.
I promise you that we will deliver not only one of the most beautiful 1.5 miles of riverfront in world within roughly 18 months but the resulting jobs, income, wealth and quality of life infrastructure that this city needs to flourish in a new time. It began today.
Thank you so much for your help.
Sean Cummings
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