The story of Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade mirrors that of commercial streets in urban areas all over the country except, in many cases, in one respect. When its first attempt at creating a walking street failed, instead of giving up, the city doubled down and hired a San Francisco (yay, cheers the Bay Area native) firm to redesign the area and ended up with an impressive success (story, lots of great historical pictures):
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