{"id":8221,"date":"2020-08-26T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2020-08-26T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:42:26","slug":"from-my-standpoint-the-marketing-is-great-but-we-have-to-actually-convince-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8221","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrom my standpoint, the marketing is great, but we have to actually convince people,\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worth.com\/what-will-normal-look-like-for-new-york-city-post-pandemic\/\">Micki Wagner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrom my standpoint, the marketing is great, but we have to actually convince people,\u201d Entwistle said. \u201cThere\u2019s the process, and there\u2019s benefits to doing it, but we\u2019ve got to make that happen because what I\u2019m seeing just socially is people who have lived in New York for a long time are literally giving up their apartments in the city, and they\u2019re moving to the suburbs right now. There\u2019s a mass exodus that can be damaging unless we can turn that around, and when people leave the city, and when companies don\u2019t have their employees coming into buildings, then the revenues start to go down\u2026It\u2019s a big challenge but there\u2019s ways to work through it over time and, again, if you have that ability to draw from other resources, even the government, even the State of New York, for the time being, if there\u2019s a place to access that liquidity to get through this rough patch, everybody will be fine in six or 12 or 24 months, I would imagine. That would be my bet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think we need to make our cities wonderful places to live,\u201d Butler-Adams added. \u201cThey need to be amazing; they need to be free. They need to be gorgeous. You need to open the door and the children charge out. You need to make the people live in it. At the moment, the people are getting out of the city because they\u2019ve been stuck in a tiny flat for three months, and this isn\u2019t the end of the coronavirus\u2026We need to rethink how we live our cities and make them wonderful places to live, vibrant, interesting, artistic and draw people in, draw the young in, draw the talent in and make people feel welcome. Stuffing a city full of metal boxes, stress, anger, air pollution, that\u2019s not the way to have a city. They\u2019re where most of us live. Cities need to be the most beautiful places to live, full of culture and diversity and richness, and that\u2019s what we need to think.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micki Wagner: \u201cFrom my standpoint, the marketing is great, but we have to actually convince people,\u201d Entwistle said. \u201cThere\u2019s the process, and there\u2019s benefits to doing it, but we\u2019ve got to make that happen because what I\u2019m seeing just socially is people who have lived in New York for a long time are literally giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}