Survey Results by Location

"It [Kalamazoo] doesn't feel like a college town." -Kalamazoo Public Schools Parent

"When I say marketing, we're all going to have to get on the band wagon as far as boarding this community. And that realtors and business and neighborhoods-it's gotta take some real standing behind it and waving our own flag and supporting this community that we're proud--it's taking pride in our community." -A Neighbor

Citizens Speak

"Maybe if all the apartments had been developed, Gilmores wouldn't have had to leave. If Peregrine Towers had already been and some more living space had been developed. Maybe it will come back when people get those things." -A Neighbor

"The biggest issue is poverty in the city and the gap that keeps widening between the haves and the have-nots. The haves are moving away from the inner city, leaving more of the have-nots here. It just keeps expanding a lot of the social problems that we're having." -A Neighbor

"It needed economic development in that neighborhood and so we had a favorable rent. -Doing business in Kalamazoo, downtown, the rent, for instance was twice what I was going to pay for downtown next to an abandoned business, with no parking and absolutely no traffic after three, four o'clock in the afternoon. You know, that was an easy decision. Sure, I might have to spend fifteen dollars a square foot on South Westnedge in Portage, but everybody's going out there-." -Business Person