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# Help redesign downtown
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/help-redesign-downtown/
- Published: 2002-11-13T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:54:42.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Downtown, #archive-import

*If you had your way, how would downtown Santa Monica look?*

*By Daily Press staff*

The community is invited to participate in planning the future of the Third Street Promenade and the downtown area this Sunday, Nov. 17.

The Santa Monica Promenade Uses Task Force is hosting a community workshop to consider ideas of improving the mix of stores, restaurants and entertainment venues downtown.

Participants will be asked a variety of things, including their opinions on how downtown could improve. They’ll also be asked to play the “place game,” where they stand in different places downtown and observe what is going on at each location.

Project for Public Spaces, a New York City-based consulting firm, last month released preliminary findings of a study to the Third Street Promenade Uses Task Force that indicate downtown Santa Monica needs a transformation. The city is paying the consultants $54,000 to assess the downtown’s “public spaces.” What the consultants already have told officials is that the downtown area is disconnected and needs be redesigned, particularly the side streets off the Promenade.

While the task force was created ear-lier this year to figure out what the proper amount of retail and restaurant space is on the Promenade, it has taken a much broader view of the downtown area.

The meeting begins at 11 a.m. and will be held at Santa Monica Place shopping mall, in the community room on the third floor.

For more information, call (310) 458- 2275.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 13, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111302.pdf?ref=smdp.com)