Amanda Moser on the trouble with prioritizing cars over pedestrians, creating spaces for human connection and a perfect Saturday night out downtown.
Amanda Moser says when she started as the Anchorage Downtown Partnership’s executive director in 2019, she was eager to help make the neighborhood a vibrant, safe, prosperous and welcoming area for residents, visitors and businesses.
The Daily News sat down with Moser to learn more about the challenges of the past few years and her vision for downtown. I think the Anchorage Downtown Partnership does that through a lot of different ways. We, in 2019, put on 100 events and brought over 100,000 people downtown. We had Movie in the Park, we had Live After Five, Zumba, hip-hop dance classes — all sorts of different ways to bring our community together in our public spaces and feel connected, feel part of something bigger than all of us.
The absence of all of that activity created the vacuum where we began to see more nefarious activity. And so at the beginning of the pandemic, we recognized the importance of our ambassadors continuing to be downtown and providing positive activation in our streets. We were able to stay out in the streets of downtown, protecting the investment of our property owners and being a positive activation in the streets while it was so, so empty.
In your opinion, what’s the best version of what downtown Anchorage could look like in 10 years? What will it take to get there? What are some strategies you’d like to see implemented to attract more businesses and residents downtown?
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