blanston t1_j79ird9 wrote on February 5, 2023 at 2:50 AM

You weren’t downtown then. Sounds like the North end of town just as you enter town. Downtown Wenatchee looks like this

trains_and_rain t1_j79og79 wrote on February 5, 2023 at 3:40 AM

That looks like a parking lot to me.

blanston t1_j79s5rc wrote on February 5, 2023 at 4:14 AM

Yeah, so the area around Wenatchee is largely rural and the trains from Quincy and Waterville don’t run all that often. People need to get into town somehow.

trains_and_rain t1_j79vv6d wrote on February 5, 2023 at 4:50 AM

That doesn't mean the main street needs to be a parking lot.

Strong Towns has a lot of research and material on how smaller towns like this can build more economically viable communities by avoiding this type of development. Particularly relevant here: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/9/4/seven-key-differences