RenPark Attracts Typical Peorian Response

Take a look at the city's website. One word: crap. It makes me embarrassed to live here. They're even using the "it plays in Peoria" cliche we all despise as their headline.

Now take a look at this website. See a difference?

For the first time, maybe ever, Peoria is being marketed well. This is a nice town. There are wonderful resources available. I mean, finally, the city is actually telling our story in a way that isn't embarrassing to everyone who calls Peoria home.

Now here comes the typical response from the typical West Bluff resident: they puke all over it.

It seems to me, as a non-resident of these neighborhoods, that the people in these older areas of the city are vicious to one another. They have fist fights at neighborhood association meetings, they vandalize one another's property (I even heard a rumor of a certain someone setting RenPark commissioner's garage on fire recently. Anyone know the facts?), they pass around ridiculous lies...basically, they scare the heck out of me a lot more than the big bad bogeyman institutions they so readily demonize.

Note: I'm not saying PeoriaIllinoisan is guilty of any of those things. He seems to be a pretty balanced guy compared to a lot of the loons that surround him. But his comments suggest the elitism that's so common among the "cleaned up" neighborhoods of Moss-Bradley, Arbor District and the Uplands.

First they absolutely refuse to have anything to do with med-tech (aka, Renaissance Park, RenPark, Rpark, and -- I actually heard someone say this one -- Rennie Park), they sneer down their noses at the University East-type of neighborhoods, and then they bitch and moan when they're not mentioned in RenPark's marketing materials along with these other, more cooperative neighborhoods.

Again, one word: Waaaah.

Renaissance Park was created to 1) Attract and grow technology companies, and 2) revitalize the neighborhoods of Central Peoria. Does anyone in their right mind qualify The Uplands as an area in need of help from anybody? How about Moss-Bradley? The truth is, these people want nothing to do with RenPark.

PeoriaIllinoisan's attitude is just like Bill Dennis' re: Bradley's NCAA victories. Again, GREAT NEWS for Peoria. So what do these glass-half-empties do? Again, bitch and moan.

Honestly, I love the idea of Renaissance Park. I just wouldn't want to move next to any of these people. They have nightmare neighbor written all over them. "Your grass clippings are on my sidewalk," or "Your tree is blocking the light on my porch," or "Tell your kids to be quite and stay out of my side of your yard." You get the idea.

These people can deride Morton and Dunlap all they want, but you never read about stuff like this happening in either of those areas.