MidlandToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a story, published June 16, titled Midland compromises on short-term free parking.
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Dear Editor,
Midland won't have to worry about the Cultural Centre or any other facility which tourists may visit if the downtown core is nothing but empty stores.
Keep up the parking debacle and that is the future for main street anywhere but, in this case Midland. Seems with Mayor Stewart Strathearn and his back up voting nay they are the ones who want this when nobody else does.
Maybe they should try having a store on King to see what is being done to those people who struggled through COVID, made it to the other side and then you do this to them.
Shop local. How will you do that when there is nothing but brown paper on the windows and the doors locked, no rent income and no tax money if the owner goes bankrupt?
The old system worked just fine. Listen to the people. Shop local, perhaps Midland Council needs to try doing just that.
Irene & Bill Smith
Midland
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