The mayor's signature program is to restore parts of the timber economy, turn the Booth Kelly Mill into a fixed monument to broken ugly mill buildings in honor of Springfield's logging history. This old mindset is dying, and it goes away with the city's population demographic; education desperately needs help, making an impact on poverty, like affordable high quality communities to live, work, do business, and safely raise kids. Those are (some of) the long term problems and they have been throwing the same bunch of old clay at the walls for decades without anything sticking. It is a good idea to not let them use Glenwood redevelopment as an easy way to mask what is looking like a little bit of a land grab that is not being done for the benefit of the people here. Btw, before I was talking about the new city offices... there building was originally built as a downtown mall and economic stimulus, and it failed miserably and quickly, a prime example of the "we will build it" failure.