Lancaster Town Square: Will it ever reach “the old days” again?

While perhaps not as pessimistic as my Lancaster Today predecessor, Chuck Bloom, I think the tornado of 1994 did change things permanently.

As far as Town Square, how many merchants stayed open late on Musicfest Thursdays in the spring and early summer? Other than Pablo at Amaya’s, you know the answer if you’ve lived there long enough.

So, while I opined in the past that it was regrettable that the city of Lancaster’s Parks and Recreation Department moved more and more of Musicfest away from Town Square, can you really blame Gary and his staff? The community picnic of April wasn’t totally reaching newer residents (but “reaching” does have to go both ways, even if it’s still theoretically easier for a “majority” to reach out to a “minority” than vice versa).

Second Saturdays were nice, but there’s a lot of other stuff against which they compete. Of course, when a lot of newer residents not only still consider themselves Dallasites, but illegally vote in Dallas elections, that’s a tough pull to overcome.