Encouraging brewers and other alcohol manufacturers to take over vacant warehouses and old buildings along West Temple near TRAX and the S-Line could jump start revitalization efforts, he said, attracting other businesses the city would like to have — from restaurants and coffee roasters to art galleries and bike shops.
But first, the city needs to make its ordinances more welcoming. Right now they are “harsh” and “demeaning,” McConnell said during a November council discussion on the issue.
He pointed to this sentence in the city’s code: “The city finds that the sales and consumption of alcohol creates adverse secondary effects, including public drunkenness, increased violence and crime, impaired judgment in social interactions, injury and death to persons and loss of property.