This comment has garnered quite a bit of derision and disagreement, but it isn't completely incorrect.
I would tend to agree that the neighborhoods will only improve after the downtown has been built back up. Revitalization of the downtown does have a halo effect in many cases, but not always.
It would be more accurate to say that revitalization of the neighborhoods [[on a significant or widespread level) requires the revitalization of the downtown, but the revitalization of downtown does not always mean that there will also be a widespread revitalization of the neighborhoods.
There are examples of declining and decayed cities revitalizing their downtowns without revitalizing their neighborhoods, but I'm not sure if there are any instances of declining and decayed cities revitalizing their neighborhoods [[on any widespread level) without revitalizing their downtown.
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