Press: Ignite CdA? Meh

In today’s editorial, the Coeur d’Alene Press comments:

Make fun of the Coeur d’Alene urban renewal agency’s new name all you want. You’ll have plenty of company. In the days since Lake City Development Corp’s board of directors smacked their lips and signed a check for $29,000 to henceforth “ignite cda,” the timbers of ridicule have burned hot and long. The morning after the controversial adoption, executive director of ignite cda Tony Berns and Eden Irgens, whose company Range NW cashed that $29,000 check, said they’d heard plenty of positives about the name change. Knowing that most people resist change even when it’s clearly for the better, we’ll leave the ignite cda torch-lighting activities to the harshest critics and focus on something else instead. Something called the big picture. More here.

Question: Do you think Coeur d’Alene’s urban renewal district has been effective?