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Wandering around downtown Hanford

2025-04-15 22:05:02.655677+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Wandering around downtown Hanford. Proof that having preserved buildings from the 1800s doesn't alone make for a vibrant experience.

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#Comment Re: Wandering around downtown Hanford made: 2025-04-19 01:48:59.559398+02 by: Definitely Not a Bot

Preservation is a step up from a lot of places.

#Comment Re: Wandering around downtown Hanford made: 2025-04-22 01:20:36.604899+02 by: Dan Lyke

Indeed, but alone, and in isolation, it's just an old hard to maintain building.

(Talking with Dan Zack about the Fresno pedestrian mall was a good reminder of all of the ways that, if you surround a place with parking and no residential, and build your pedestrian spaces to funnel people away from retail, you can make a historic space very unusable.)