A thriving downtown necessary to attract GenXers Sunday, March 23, 2003 MARY McDONOUGH FOR THE SAGINAW NEWS How to breathe new life into aging downtown Saginaw is a question many leaders are trying to answer, but there is no easy solution. Still, communities can't attract young Generation Xers to live and work there without a thriving downtown, said Bill Rustem, senior vice president of Public Sector Consultants Inc., a Lansing-based think tank. "In Michigan, we're always looking for the silver bullet, the casinos or the big public development projects," he said, "but we just have not concentrated enough on the...
